THE
PRESBYTERIAN
PHILADELPHIA
PUBLISHED FOR THE BOARDS
®huteh in the United nf gntmen.
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION,
Subscriptions should be sent to John A. Black, Publisher, 1334 Chestnut St., Phila., Pa.
e copies, 50 cents per annum. In packages, four copies addressed to one person for
OFFICES AND AGENCIES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
I. THE CLERKS.
Stated Clerk and Treasurer — Rev. Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D., No. 149 West Thirty-fourth
Street, New York, N. Y.
Permanent Clerk — Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D., No. 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
II. THE TRUSTEES.
President — Hou. George Sharswood, LL.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Recording Secretary and Treasurer — Mr. Eugene G. Woodward, Presbyterian House, No
1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
III. THE PRESBYTERIAN HOUSE.
President — Samuel C. Perkins, Esq., Philadelphia, Pa.
Secretary — Rev. Thomas J. Shepherd, D.D., Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurer — Mr. William E. Tenftrook. Philadelphia, Pa.
1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
IV. THE BOARDS.
1. HOME MISSIONS.
Corresponding Secretaries — Rev. Henry Kendall, D.D., and Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D.
Treasurer — Mr. Oliver D. Eaton.
Office — Presbyterian Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
2. FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Corresponding Secretaries — Rev. John C. Lowrie, D.D., Rev. David Irving, D.D., and Rev.
Frank F. Ellinwood, D.D.
Treasurer — Mr. William Rankin.
Office — Presbyterian Mission House, 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
3. EDUCATION.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. Daniel W. Poor, D.D.
Treasurer — Mr. Eugene G. Woodward.
Office — Presbyterian House, No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
4. PUBLICATION.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. William E. Schenck, D.D.
Editorial Secretary — Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D.
Treasurer and Superintendent of Missionary Work — Mr. Samuel D. Powel.
Business Superintendent — Mr. John A. Black.
General Superintendent of Sabbath-school Work — Rev. James A. Worden.
Publishing House and Office — No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
5. CHURCH ERECTION.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. Henry R. Wilson, D.D.
Treasurer — Mr. Henry R. Wilson, Jr.
Office — Presbyterian Mission House, No. 23 Centre Street, New York, N. Y.
6. MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. George Hale, D.D.
Recording Secretary and Treasurer — Rev. Charles Brown.
Office — Presbyterian House, No. 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
7. FREEDMEN.
Corresponding Secretary — Rev. A. Craig McClelland, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Treasurer — Rev. James Allison, D.D., 76 Third Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Office — No. 33 Fifth Avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa.
8. SUSTENTATION.
Officers — Same as Home Missions.
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS.
It is recommended that a Church Contribution be made on the first Lord’s Day of
eight months of the year, annually, as follows: .
1 Foreign Missions, January. 2. Sustentation, March. 3. Publication, May
4. Church Erection, July. 5. Ministerial Reliet, September. 6. Education, October.
7- Home Missions, November. 8. Freedmen, December.
N B —Presbyterian Historical Society.— Rev. A. V. C. Schenck, Corresponding
Sec. c '.cry and Librarian , 1J29 Race street, Philadelphia, la.
THE PRESBYTERIAN
MONTHLY RECORD.
XXXI. PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST, 1880. No. 8.
BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The last Assembly was one of the very pleasant meetings of the
representatives of the Presbyterian Church.
We can speak emphatically of the cause of Home Missions — and we
think it was the same with all the other Boards — that it had cordial con-
sideration and warm endorsement, and we cannot but think that it has a
deeper hold on the hearts of the people than ever before.
SABBATH-SCHOOLS AND HOME MISSIONS.
The General Assembly noted, with great satisfaction, that the Sabbath-
schools had contributed, during the year, $11,832 80 to this Board,
and recommended “ to Church Sessions to take up an annual collection
for the Board in all the Sabbath-schools under their care.” It was a
wise recommendation. The children in our Sabbath-schools cannot too
early be’come acquainted with and interested in the West, for many of
them will find their homes there, and be buried there. And, though
they may not realize it, their parents and the Sabbath-school teachers
can readily see that by all they do for the Home field of to-day, by so
much the better will it be when it becomes their future home. Whether
they know it or not, the contributions these children make to Home
Missions will bring down blessings on their own heads, in the time to
come.
This is the proper time, then, to renew the suggestion that $250
supports a missionary.
A gentleman— a treasurer of a strong church in the heart of New
York — enclosing a collection, wrote as follows : —
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Would not the churches take a more decided interest in missions, and
a greater number be induced to take upon themselves the responsibility
of supporting at least one, if they were directly interested in that one ?
Let each church, contributing enough for support of a missionary, con-
sider that missionary its own , and receive regularly reports direct from
him, as to progress, &c. In this way a personal interest in the man and
his work would be created — a great want of the church to-day. Could
such a plan be adopted without interfering with the workings of the
“ Boards ”?
Many a Sabbath-school can raise $250, in quarterly installments, and
have a Home Missionary as “ its own,” and have regular reports from
him for the monthly concert. And many schools have adopted the plan,
and have enjoyed it very much. Nor has that enjoyment been confined
to Sabbath-schools. We make the same offer to individuals or families.
We sent the suggestion to a liberal contributor a few months ago, and he
responded immediately : “ I like the suggestion — I will take ten mis-
sionaries/’ and he sent his check for $2500 ; and ten students, sent out
from our theological seminaries at the East, and just located in various
parts of the West, will send the report of their labors, trials, and suc-
cessess for the year to come, to this generous contributor.
The device is a happy one for Sabbath-schools ; we hope more of them
will avail themselves of such an opportunity to learn about Sabbath-
school and church work at the West, from such intelligent corres-
pondents.
AN URGENT APPEAL TO THE CHURCHES AND PRESBYTERIES IN THE
OLDER STATES.
The last two numbers of the Record have called attention to the
increasing number of churches, many of them in the East, that call on
the Board for more aid this year than last. The General Assembly has
become alarmed at this state of things, especially when so much is de-
manded elsewhere at the present time. We can scarcely find a more
powerful passage than that in which it appeals to the churches and
presbyteries, and we cannot do better than to quote their words, which
are as follows : —
“At no period, since the financial crash of 1873, has the stream of
immigration to our shores set in so strongly or flowed so continuously
as it is doing to-day. The great mass of these immigrants push west-
ward at once to the vast territory lying both east and west of the Mis-
sissippi. To these tens of thousands must be added settlers from the
older states, who, in large numbers, are turning their backs upon the
homes of their childhood and youth to push their fortune in the distant
West. To them the gospel must be preached, and the Presbyterian
Church dare not shrink from her responsibility in the matter. But in
order to do this, is it not high time that the Board were relieved from
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the heavy burden of churches within the older states, and thus be enabled
to concentrate its force and expend the great bulk of the funds com-
mitted to its care on these newer fields, already white to the harvest ?
Is it an absolute necessity that within the rich State of Pennsylvania,
one hundred and nine churches must draw partial support from the
treasury of the Board ? Can not more strenuous effort at home reduce
the number of dependent churches in New York below ninety ? and of
Ohio, below eighty ? Churches and presbyteries alone can answer these
significant questions, and upon that answer will depend in no small
measure the rapidity with which really missionary territory will be over-
taken and occupied.”
Fifty thousand immigrants landing on our shores in a single month !
“ Tens of thousands from the older states!” all pushing westward!
How shall we supply these people with the means of grace, unless the
churches in the older states are more in earnest to reach self-support ?
If the presbyteries would as earnestly appeal to their Home Missionary
churches, and to the richer members thereof, as they do to the Board for
help, would not the fruit of their labors be manifest in a greatly reduced
number of applicants in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio ? The
experiment is worth the trial. The really needy should not be denied ;
but the niggardly and unwilling should be searched out, and honestly
and faithfully dealt with.
HOW SHALL IT BE DONE?
The following letter from Dr. Armstrong, of Southern Illinois, may
furnish useful hints on the preceding topic. In speaking of that region
he says : —
“ 1st. There must be wise and earnest labor among the feeble churches
and destitute places, by members of the Presbytery preaching the gospel,
often in protracted meetings; visiting the people from house to house.
All the power in these Presbyteries must be brought out and used.
“ 2d. The Board’s policy of e grouping’ should be steadily and wisely
carried forward, not merely grouping, but ‘ consolidating ,’ so relieving
of the burden of many bantling churches, and giving us strong rural
charges, or village centres with outlying neighborhoods, which the one
man can reach. So also relieving the Board of many life-long mis-
sionary nurslings. The churches of Bockwood, Cave Spring, and
Walnut Hill, are an example. These lie so that the centre of each is
in the angle of a triangle, and these centres are not more than five or
six miles apart. These churches reported last year 60 members each.
Of these there are perhaps 50 solid farmers, prospering and growing
rich, who might now, or in the near future, give to this work fifty dollars
annually, without hardship. Consolidated , this field would become a
charge of commanding influence, instead of three starvelings eking out
a feeble existence by the aid of the Board.
“An example of another kind is the field of Rev. Sami. Ward, of the
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old Galum Church, in Perry County. This church was organized 36
years ago, in a rich farming country, with a community of Kentucky
Presbyterians, and an element of Scotch and Irish. Brother Ward
preaches every Sabbath morning, at the church ; after Sabbath-school,
which he superintends, at 3 p. M., he preaches one Sabbath at the
4 Beard School-house,’ four miles south, the next Sabbath p. M. at
4 Brown School-house,’ three miles north, and the third Sabbath p. M.
at 4 Bingham School-house,’ three or four miles in another direction.
So, with a three-weekly or four-weekly arrangement, he sweeps a region
of a very prosperous farming country, eight miles in diameter, of which
the people are very largely and strongly Presbyterian, and of which the
church and pastor’s house are very nearly the geographical centre.
44 With brother Ward’s excellent organization of his work, and energy
in prosecuting it, I shall be disappointed if that field does not speedily
grow out of the hands of the Board. One hundred such parishes should
be organized at no distant day, about centres already planted or to be
planted in the broad empire covered by the Synod of Illinois South, and
each self-supporting and helping others.
44 How else shall our broad rural districts, now so sadly destitute, be
reached and evangelized ? How else shall we answer to our Lord, who
opens before us a door 4 so wide and effectual ’?
44 3d. The G-erman question grows daily in dimensions and in serious
importance. 4 The father land ’ is sending many, many thousands
annually into all our broad prairies. Friends and relatives of the pres-
ent settlers are coming in countless numbers. They all get a foothold,
and they never let go. Everywhere, anywhere, they make room for
themselves. How are we to meet them ? How Americanize, Christian-
ize them ? Only by sending among them men, ministers German born,
but American educated. German education will but help to reproduce
Germany. American education, American schools, everything Amer-
ican, and especially our public and Sabbath-schools — American
preachers, with the German tongue and blood, — these can meet and
Americanize them.
44 Finally, trust the eldership of our churches for help. Their earnest
Christian character, their intelligence, devotion, generosity, and readi-
ness to serve the cause of Christ and the church in any practicable way,
has filled me with admiration. These men are everywhere foremost in
every good work within their own bounds ; and I am surprised and
deeply touched by their forwardness to help in this work. Freely they
give time, sympathy, counsel, prayer, money, and hospitality unbounded.
They are even ready to forward me on my journey, and in every way
possible give effect to my labors.
44 When I remember that in the churches of this Synod is a body of
these men, from seven to ten thousand strong, I thank God and take
courage. I congratulate the Board and the Synod that such a force of
consecrated practical wisdom, drawn from all the walks of active life,
has been raised up, and harnessed and drilled for the service. Surely
here is warrant for the great good work to which God is calling our
Church in this field.”
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A HAPPY YEAR’S WORK.
REV. 0. COMPTON.
Palmyra, Neb., June 10, 1880.
I have been so exceedingly busy thus far the present month, that I
have failed to write you my last quarterly report till now. We have
now had a year’s home-missionary work and experience in Nebraska,
and I have to report that it has been as pleasant a year, in all respects,
as ever we have known. To be sure we have not found sunshine and
flowers all of the way ; we do not expect that while we continue in the
flesh. There has been here and there a little thorn. These have, no
doubt, done us good. If we had no “ head wind ” we should never learn
to “beat.” This beautiful country and climate has ministered much to
our health and happiness. We never have enjoyed better health. We
are perfectly contented and happy in this home-missionary work. We
expect to stay. We did when we came, and we have not for a moment
had any desire to make a change. The work has moved on about as
usual during the quarter. There has been some addition to the church
and there are more who will unite with us soon. At Palmyra there has
been organized during the quarter a Presbyterian Sabbath-school. There
had been a union school here till within the past year. We organized
our school upon the loyal basis by putting it under the care and juris-
diction of the session.
Our people will make some advance another year in pastoral support.
They will ask the Board for less than they did last year by $75 at least,
which is better, is it not? than to ask for more. We are glad to know
that our Board is comparatively unembarrassed with debt at the begin-
ning of another year. Perhaps that is mercenary, but it is encouraging
nevertheless. And now, brethren, if convenient, may I hear from you,
financially, soon ? I have a note and some bills to settle in a few days.
Please do not take this as a dun. I simply suggest that I may not be
remiss in meeting my obligations. With gratitude to the church and
yourselves, for the help of the past, I am most respectfully and affection-
ately your servant in Christ.
REV. F. W. IDDINGS.
Grand Forks, Dakota, June 4, 1880.
About the middle of the quarter we were crowded out of our public
hall, and I have no place to hold our services in Grand Forks since
then. But we are now enjoying the anticipations of getting into our
new church building one week from next Sabbath. Our people are get-
ting anxious to have regular and uninterrupted services here.
Our 'town has grown in population and building marvellously during
the two weeks I was absent. The railroad company are accumulating
large quantities of ties and iron rails at this point, with which to push
their line out west from here into the interior of the Territory ; and
multitudes of settlers are going in advance, largely from the State of
New York, from the vicinity of Newburgh, Orange county. We should
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by all means have a man located twenty miles west of the Forks, where
this new road will cross the Turtle River, and where there will be a
town of some importance at an early day.
I noticed the same state of affairs at Breckenridge and Whapperton
as I was coming home. The railroad company are pushing a new
branch out into the Territory with even more energy, and the settle-
ment is equal in rapidity with ours. Whapperton is growing very rap-
idly. We have no man there, and none upon that important line west.
We must awake and arise, and push out our work in advance of the
railroads. It is so much easier to get a foothold now than afterward.
Hoping that the coming quarter will give us churches and men in this
Territory equal to the progress in its settlements, I remain yours sin-
cerely.
WORK AMONG THE MORMONS.
REV. S. S. GILLESPIE.
Brigham City, Utah. May I, 1880.
The progress at this point, during the last three months, is : —
1. A marked abatement of hostility, and general expression of good
will toward us on the part of the people.
2. Our school has been relieved, to a great extent, of the priestly
opposition, or rather persecution, and as a natural consequence it has
nearly doubled in attendance.
3. Another very encouraging feature of our work is the patronage of
some of the good Mormons. At first they would have been cut off the
church. Now we have Mormon children attending our school without
let or hindrance.
4. I have had already to reseat my school-room with more convenient
and compact seats, and must make immediate room for two departments,
by moving my family or building an addition.
5. One of my wealthiest patrons has advised building a‘ chapel and
school-room, similar to those being erected at Ogden, Logan, and other
points, and offered to contribute. Yet, he offered §100 for the purchase
of this property; but the opposition was so great as to keep him from
even sending his children, until the past winter. He has 23 children of
his own, of school age, besides as many more grandchildren. His
patronage is quite sufficient for one teacher. Another neighbor has 47
children, besides grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of whom
the census tables will never be able to hold. And still another man,
with eleven living wdves and some dead, has promised to send all his
children next winter. We are greatly encouraged with the popular
esteem expressed for our school, and will make every possible effort to
make it a good common school ; adding a high-school department as
soon as our scholars are ready for it.
I have asked, through Presbytery, §300 for our present needed im-
provements, from Board of Church Erection. But, with our present
prospects, we need a new building to cost say §1500. There is no ques-
tion but what wre are undermining bigamy and fanaticism. Our weapons
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are most effective — the school and expository preaching — “ and are
mighty through God to the pulling down of this stronghold of Sa-
tan.”
6. Our preaching services and Sabbath-school are all that our house
will accommodate, using two rooms, 20 x 20. We are permitted to wor-
ship now without molestation. These services have been regular, with-
out any interruption, save one Sabbath at Presbytery.
7. Corinne has become almost depopulated. I have preached there
once a month during the winter, and am now preaching and holding
Sabbath-school every other Sabbath. The school has diminished from
60 to 25, and the attendance at preaching about the same. I have still
attended funerals and marriages there, and am the only minister within
the county. I greatly need an assistant teacher.
WORK AMONG THE MEXICANS AND INDIANS— MORE LABORERS NEEDED.
KEV. J. W. SHIELDS.
Jemez, New Mexico, May 10, 1880.
[As our work extends farther into the hitherto unoccupied fields in
the Rocky Mountains and the distant Territories, we must expect to
hear more about the Mexicans, Mormons and Indians.]
We are all well and getting along quietly. Mr. Perea left here this
morning. I was up at the Springs on Saturday and preached. After
sermon we received four members — Mr. Archuleto and his wife and two
grandchildren. Archuleto is in his seventy-third year. He is well
known in all this country — has taken an active part in the wars, &c.,
with Indians in other years. He is a vigorous old man yet, and seems
to be much in earnest.
I wish you could have been in the meeting on Saturday. It made
my heart glad to see the happiness and contentment of these dear Chris-
tians. There are now sixteen members, in all of whom I have the
utmost confidence. Others over the range are seemingly about ready
to renounce Romanism and turn to the true worship of God. At the
Canatha a prominent man is ready to join if I could only go to attend
to him. He has been reading for years, and has been a Protestant for
some time. If I were free from this Indian work, I could enjoy myself
well in the Mexican work in this vast and promising field. But my
heart aches for these dear Indian children. We have come to love
them, and my eyes fill often with tears when I think of them and think
of leaving them. If it were not for them I think I would ask to be
transferred to the Mexican work entirely. I need Mr. Perea in this
field for a while yet.
I want to speak to you again about a teacher for Mexicans. How
can we do without teachers for them any longer ? Come yourself and
see these dear children, and your heart will burn for them. These
children of the church must not grow up in ignorance, and many Cath-
olic children are anxious to go to school, or their parents, rather, want
to send them. I ask something, and I hope it is not too much.
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HOME MISSIONS.
MORE WORK DEMANDED IN ALASKA.
Last fall Mr. Young, our missionary at Fort Wrangel, spent a month
or more among the tribes on the Islands and the coast north of Wrangel
for 300 or 400 miles, and found great readiness, on the part of the
natives and their chiefs to receive and welcome teachers and missionaries.
During the last quarter he and Mr. Lyons, our missionary at Sitka
Naue, spent a couple of weeks on the Prince of Wales Island, one of
the large islands in S. E. Alaska, and the home of the Hydahs. They
found these Indians a stalwart, manly race, less corrupted by contact
with the wThites than many other tribes, and, from their intercourse with
the Christian Indians at Metlekatla, B. C., not far away, anxious to know
the better way. They want teachers, schools, missionaries, the intro-
duction of mechanic arts, and whatever will help lift them up in material
and spiritual things.
But in both these fields we are prevented from going forward, because
suitable men cannot be found for the work ; or those who are found are
hindered by some Providential impediment for the present.
The same is true of many other fields, not only among the Indians,
but among the whites : churches left destitute, fields open to missionary
labor neglected, because we cannot find the men we need for the wrork.
HOME MISSION APPOINTMENTS FOR JUNE, 1880.
Of the folioicing, nineteen are Sustentation Pastorates.
Rev. W. H. Sybrandt, Boston, Mass.
Rev. J. H. Van Wie, Lyons Falls, N. Y.
Rev. E. Brown, Green Lawn, “
Rev. W. S. C. W'ebster, Port Jefferson, “
Rev. J. H. Norris, Rockland and Youugsville, “
Rev. E. H. Mateer, Milford, “
Rev. J. N. Husted, Purvis, “
Rev. G. L. Hamilton, Parma Centre, “
Rev. J. H. Clark, Lake View, N. J.
Rev. J. M. Denton, Forked River and Barnegat, “
Rev. A. M. Jelly, D.D., New Windsor, Md.
Rev. G. Morrison, Grove, “
Rev. R. H. Williams, Mt. Paren, Quarries and
Mt. Airy, “
Rev. H. O. Gibbons, Annapolis, “
Rev. R. Beaver, Betbel, Pa.
Rev. R. J. Creswell, Natrona and Pleasant Hill, “
Rev. B. T. DeWitt, Fairview, “
Rev. B. Russell, Farmington and Beecher’s
Island, “
Rev. C. D. Wilson, Atglen and Christiana, “
Rev. R. E. Fliekenger, Doe Run and Valley, “
Rev. J. Petrie, Barclay, “
Rev. J. P. Harsen, Nanticoke,
Rev. W. McNab, Silver Lake,
Rev. J. C. Hume, Lancaster Memorial Chapel, “
Rev. J. W. Scott, D.D., Jefferson, “
Rev. C. B. Wakefield, Somerset, Jenner, and
Mt. Washington, “
Rev. C. C. G-ould, Sutton, Burnsville, and
Glenville, W. Va.
Rev. M. D. A. Steen, Ludlow, Ky.
Rev. W. O. Goodloe. Sharpsburg,
Rev. G. J. Reed, D.D., Columbia,
Rev. A. T. Spilman, Paint Lick, Ky-
Rev. M. May, Livingston, Green Sulphur, and
Pine Hill, “
Rev. A. M. Penland, Reems Creek, ‘College
Hill, and Davidson River, N. C.
Rev. J. G. McFerrin, Timber Ridge, Teun.
Rev. J. Silsby, Clover Hill, “
Rev. M. A. Mathes, Unitia and Cloyds Creek,
Rev. O. Reidy, Souniat St., New Orleans, La.
Rev. S. F. Sharpless, Monroe, Ohio.
Rev. H. R. McDonald, Freeport,
Rev. J. G. Black, Wegee,
Rev. A. B. Brice, D.D., Nelsonville,
Rev. C. W. Torrey, Richwood,
Rev. S. D. Taylor. Milton Centre, “
Rev. D. R. Love, Fowler and Benton, Ind.
Rev. T. D. Fyffe, Ladoga,
Rev. L. L. Lorimer, Nashville and Georgetown,
Rev. H. Y. Warren, Gibson City, 111.
Rev. W. L. Rabe, Union and Cayuga,
Rev. A. L. Knox, Hoopstown,
Rev. J. D. Howey, Altona,
Rev. J. J. Gulick, Pennsylvania,
Rev. F. Lippe, Salem, German,
Rev. J. W. Cecil, Macon,
Rev. T. J. Lamont, Chicago, Reunion, “
Rev. W. K. Wright, St. Anne 2d,
Rev. D. Clark, Austin,
Rev. W. R. Mundhenke, Wheeling, Zion, German, “
Rev. J. H. Trowbridge. Riverside,
Rev. E. N. Barrett, Chicago, Westminster,
Rev. A. Swazey, D.D., Chicago, 41st Street, “
Rev. P. Boudreau, Kankakee 2d,
Rev. A. S. Gardiner, Winslow,
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HOME MISSIONS.
Rev. J. S. Davis, Sumner, 111.
Rev. W. S. Potter, Petoskey, Mich.
Rev. Neil Curry, Sheridan, Austin, and Bing-
ham, “
Rev. H. H. Northrop, Presbyterial Missionary, “
Rev. F. W. Witte, Beloit and Wheatland,
German, .Wis.
Rev. W. H. Smith, Barron Co., “
Rev. J. Post, D.D , Perseverance, “
Rev. H. Pullen, Fort Howard, “
Rev. P. Dougherty, Pine Grove, “
Rev. R. T. Roberts, Cambria, “
Rev. J. Paterson, Cambridge, “
Rev. C. Loudon, Home and Eden, Minn.
Rev. J. C. McKee, Tracy, Currie, and Saratoga, “
Rev. S. F. Drew, Preston, “
Rev. J. A. McGowan, Shakopee, “
Rev. J. J. Ward, Kasson, “
Rev. T. S. Bailey, Carroll, Iowa.
Rev. G. Knox, Cherokee, “
Rev. C. H. DeLong, Creston, “
Rev. J. M. Smith, Missouri Valley, “
Rev. G. M. Lodge, Shelby and Neola, “
Rev. J. Osmond, Russell, “
Rev. C. M. Allen, Derby, Lucas, and English, “
Rev. S. Johnson, Leon, “
Rev. A. Danskin, Keota and Lafayette, “
Rev. L. Figge, Dakota 1st, German, Dakota.
Rev. H. M. Giltner, Aurora and Unity, Neb.
Rev. A. S. Fonda, Waterville, “
Rev. G. C. Giffen, Osco and Kenesaw, “
Rev. D. Street, Falls City, “
Rev. A S. Powel, Exeter, “
Rev. W. M. Howell, Fairmont and Geneva, “
Rev. John Foy, Salem and Beulah, “
Rev. J. N. Youug, Neosho and Westminster, Mo.
Rev. J. Thompson, Trentou (Hodge), “
Rev. W. J. Patton, Carrollton, “
Rev. J. H. Ralston, Burlington and Big
Creek, Kansas.
Rev. S. M. Irwin, Geneva and Liberty, “
Rev. W. N. McHarg, Blue Rapids, “
Rev. J. W. Talbot, Walnut and Mill Creek, “
Rev. G. Pierson, Solomon and Poheta, “
Rev. W. P. Haworth, Enterprise and Sterling, “
Rev. J. P. Fulton, Harper and Kiugman, “
Rev. E. S. Miller, Iola, “
Rev W. B. McKee, McCune, Monmouth, and
Osage, “
Rev. H. M. Greene, La Cygue, Fontana, and
Round Prairie, “
Rev. J. H. Bright, Chanute and Thayer, “
Rev. A. Steed, Hays City, “
Rev. J. Gitfiu, Weatherford, Texas.
Rev. J. L. Merritt, Poncha Springs, Col.
Rev. H. L. Janeway, Ouray,
Rev. J. A. Gerhard, Gunnison Co., • “
Rev. J. S. Carruthers, Idaho Springs, “
Rev. J. Y. Cowhick, Cheyenne, “
Rev. A M. Darley, Mexicans, “
Rev. I. N. Otis, Yalmont, “
Rev G. M. Darley, Lake City, “
Rev. W. C. Beebe, Animos City, “
Rev. M. L. Cook, Missoula, Montana.
Rev. W. M. Meyer, Piicenix, Arizona.
Rev. J. Woods, Tombstone, “
Rev. I. N. Waterman, Reading, Cal.
Rev. J. N. Hubbard, Grayson and Tracy, “
Rev. A. J. Compton, Elko, Nevada.
Rev. R. Mackenzie, Howard, Cal.
Rev. T. M. Oviatt, Gilroy, “
Rev. H. Hill, San Leandro, “
Rev. G. F. Whitworth, Sumner, Puyallup,
New Taconia, and White River, Wash. Ter’y.
Rev. E. W. Morrison, Weston, Centreville,
and Pendleton, “ “
RECEIPTS FOR HOME MISSIONS IN JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Troy — East Lake George, 4 75 ; Bay
Road, 7 75. 12 50
Atlantic. — East Florida — St. Augustine, 1st, 10 30
Baltimore. — New Castle — Christiana, 11 ; Glasgow
Pencader, 12; Lower Brandywine, 7 70 ; Middletown
Forest, 1st cb. sab-sch., 52; Newark, 20; Salisbury
Wicomico, 50; St. George’s sab-sch, (in part), 16 60;
Stanton, 3 ; Head of Christiana, 15. Washington City
— Rev. J. E. Nourse, 5. 192 30
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 3 15. St. Lawrence — De Kalb, 4 16. Syracuse
— Fulton, 58 05. Utica — Rome, 39 12. 104 48
Cincinnati. — Cincinnati — Loveland (sab-sch., 16 36),
30 38 ; Pleasant Ridge, 10. 40 38
Cleveland. — Cleveland — Cleveland 2d, Ladies’
Soc., 100; Cleveland South, from Rev. J. H. Breck &
wife, 10. Mahoning — N ew Lisbon (ch. sab-sch., 18 80),
36 80 Steubenville — Annapolis, from J. Gault, Sr.,
20; Harlem, from Mrs. Mary Van Horne, 500; Rich-
mond, 13 10 ; Steubenville 2d, ch. sab-sch., 62 50.
742 40
Colorado. — Colorado — Boulder, 5; Longmont, 12.
Utah — Evanston, 10. 27 00
Columbia. — Idaho — Dayton, 6; Waitsburg, 6. Ore-
gon— Albany, 40. 52 00
Columbus. — Marion — Chesterville sab-sch., 16 82.
Wooster — Chester (Ladies, 11, ch. sab-sch., 8), 19;
Congress W. M. Society, 17 ; Dalton, 15; Mt. Eaton, 2.
Zanesville — Concord, 10; Muskingum, 17 25. 97 07
Erie. — Butler — Muddy Creek, add'l, 9 ; Scrub
Grass, 30. Kittanning — Concord, 13 60 ; Rayne, 8.
60 60
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 19 74. Steuben —
Corning, 17 83. 37 57
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — Chambersburg Central,
30; “ R. & R.,” 10 25. Huntingdon — Beulah, 8; Cur-
wensville, 27 ; Duncansville, 15 ; Hollidaysburg (sab-
sch., 4 95), 19 58; Perry sville, 21 13. Wellsboro'—
Wellsboro’ (ch. sab-sch., 4), 13 86. 144 82
Illinois Central. — Bloomington — Jersey, 5 10.
Schuyler — Adrian, 2 85 ; Appanoose, 4 ; Chili, 4 ; El-
vaston, Ladies’ Soc., a member, 5; Mrs. J. R. Bell, 7.
Illinois North. — Freeport — Rock Run, 4. Rock
River — Fulton, 2. 6 00
Illinois South. — A Iton — Carrollton, 6 19 ; Virden,
6 22. Cairo — Nashville, 4. Mattoon — Morrisonville,
9. 25 41
Indiana North. — Crawfordsville — Kimberlin, 2.
Logansport — Union, 2. Aluncie — Wabash, 15 38.
19 38
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Greenwood, 6; In-
dianapolis 7th, 2 71; Putnamville, 1. Vincennes —
Petersburg, 3 75 ; Rev. M. L. Milford, 5. 18 46
Iowa North. — Fort Dodge — Glidden, 5 00
Iowa South. — Council Bluffs — Corning, 20 66. Iowa
— Spring Creek, 2 50. Iowa City — Montezuma, 14;
Summit, 7. 44 16
Kansas. — Emporia — Big Creek, 4; Burlington,
6 17 ; Davis Co. 2d, 5 13; Ebenezer, 4 31; Melvern,
3; Rev. W. W. Curtis, 5. Highland — Atchison, 33;
Hiawatha sab-sch., 3. Lamed — Ellenwood, 1 ; Har-
per, 3; Raymond, 52 cts. Neosho — Cedar Creek, 1;
Garnett, 3 50; Richmond, 5 60. Solomon — Cheever, 4;
Mulberry, 10 ; Willowdale, 1. 93 23
Kentucky. — Louisvule — Louisville Broadway Tab-
ernacle, 17 55
Long Island. — Brooklyn — Brooklyn 1st, add’l, 100 ;
Brooklyn Green Ave., 5 ; Brooklyn Latayette Ave.,
monthly con., 17 48; Brooklyn Throop Ave., 37 83;
Brooklyn Westminster sab-sch., 62 50 ; W'est New
Brighton, Calvary sab-sch., 46 31. Nassau — Islip,
monthly con., 2. 271 12
Michigan. — Detroit — Brighton, 10. Grand Rapids
— Ferry Ministry Fund, 450. Kalamazoo — Cassopolis,
5; Richland, 3 43. Lansing — Homer, from Mrs. E.
Barker, 150. Saginaw — Austin, 5 ; Bad Axe. 3 25 ; Black-
man Station, 1 ; Paris, 1 35; Saginaw, 7 49. 636 52
Minnesota. — Mankato — Judson, 85 cts. St. Paul —
Olivet, 3; Pine City, 9 28; Rice’s Point, 5; White
Bear Lake, 17 10. Winona — Fremont, 8; Le Roy,
9 40 ; Taopi, 5. 57 63
Missouri. — Ozark — Buffalo, 2; Conway, 2. Pal-
myra— Moberly, 5. Platte — Craig, 12 ; Mound City, 20.
St. Louis — Ferguson, 5; Fredericktown, 1 75; Kirk-
wood, 26 45 ; St. Louis Lafayette Park, 28 25. 102 45
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HOME MISSIONS.
Nebraska — Kearney — Harvard (sab-sch., 1), 5 ;
Riverton, 2. Omaha — Columbus, 6 50; Fremont, 11.
24 50
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Cranford sab-sch., 16 69 ;
Roselle 1st (sab-sch., 29 07), 50 17. Jersey City — Jer-
sey City 1st (sab-sch., 27 50), 76 55; Rutherford Park,
15 75. Monmouth — Allentown, 30. Morris <£• Orange
— East Orange, 12 32 ; Flanders, 5 ; South Orange,
59 60. Newark — Bloomfield, Ger., 7 25; Caldwell,
38 52; Newark 2d, 37 43 ; Newark South Park (mon.
con.) 33 35: Newark, Ger., 3d, 13 60. New Bruns-
wick— Trenton Prospect St., 31 46. Newton — Belvi-
dere 1st, 15 30. West Jersey — Bridgeton 2d, 90. 532 99
New York. — Boston — Antrim, 12 50. Hudson—
Goodwill, 12 33; Hamptonburg, 31 31 ; Middletown
2d, 7 95; Ridgebury, 2 70; Scotchtown, 6 93. New
York — New York 1st, addl., 3000. North River —
Cornwall, 23 43. Westchester — Katonah, 17 25.
. 3114 40
Pacific.— San Fi-ancisco — San Pablo, 16 80; West
Berkeley, 7 70. 24 50
Philadelphia. — Lehigh — Summit Hill (sab-sch.,
2 73, Jamestown sab-sch., 69 cts.), 9 58. Philadelphia
— Philadelphia Walnut St. sab-sch., 76 16. Philadel-
phia Central — Philadelphia Cohocksink sab-sch., 14 25.
Philadelphia North — Doylestown and Deep Run, 11 44.
Westminster — Strasburg, 3. 114 43
Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh — Bulger sab-sch., 4 50;
Cannonsburg Young Ladies’ Soc., 10; East Liberty,
43; Pittsburgh 2d, 55 65; Pittsburgh Shady Side,
41 25. Redstone — McKeesport 1st, 32 62. West Vir-
ginia— Burnesville, 1 50; Hughes River, 5; Penns-
boro\ 15; Sutton, 2; Centreville, 2 70; Lebanon, 2 60;
Walkersville, 10 25. 220 77
Tennessee. — Kingston — Madisonville, 9. 9 00
Texas. — Austin — Brownvvood, 4. 4 00
Toledo — Belle fontaine — Bellefontaine, 8 15. Mau-
mee— Waterville, 4. 12 15
Western New York. — Buffalo — Buffalo North,
95 71 ; Silver Creek from Dr. J. C. Clieeseman, 10.
Genesee — North Bergen, 6. Genesee Valley — Kendall,
6 50. Niagara — Niagara Falls, 75 95. Rochester —
Caledonia, 35 80 ; Lima, 5 56 ; Rochester Brick (sab-
sch., 100), 175; Rochester Central, 91 65 ; Sparta 1st,
15. 517 17
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Oconto, 5. Milwaukee
— Ottawa, 1 66. Wisconsin River — Hazel Green, 2.
8 66
From the Woman’s Executive Committee
of Home Missions, 3000; from the Ladies’
Board of Missions, New York, 517 74. 3517 74
Total received from the churches, 10,946 59
legacies.
Mrs. Gertrude Appleget, dec’d, late of
Hightstown, N. J., 500; Elisha Taylor, dec’d,
late of Cleveland, O., 166 51 (addl.); William
Sloane, dec’d, late of New York City, 30,000;
A. C. Gregg, dec’d, late of Monmouth, 111.,
500; William Reed, dec’d, late of Hopedale,
O. (a balance), 500; Rollin McCurty, dec’d,
late of Union Co., Pa., 338 35 (addl.) ; Estate
of S. S. Dobbins, dec’d, late of Danville, 111.,
953 34. 32,958 20
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. C. S. Sherman, Nassau, N. Y., 3; Gur-
ley Industrial School, Washington, D. C., 9 ;
“ Returned by a Missionary,” 30; Mrs. Charles
Dibble, East Bloomfield, N. Y., 1 ; Mrs. S. M.
Yandenberg, East Bloomfield, N. Y., 1 ; “ A
Friend to the Cause,” 5 ; Mrs. Lydia Hag-
gerty, 90; Proceeds of sale of 100 copies of
tract, “ Honor the Lord with thy Substance,”
5 ; Susie, Lizzie and Gracie, Bedford, N. Y.,
12; “A Tithe Offering,” 6; “C., Conn.,” 4;
“Cash,” 50; Hettie O. Mussey, Leavenworth,
Kansas, 12; “L. O. E.,” per Presbyterian, 5;
A. M. Walker, Pa., 5 ; J. R. Groves, Couders-
port, Pa., 5. 240 00
Total in June, 1880 $44,144 79
O. D. Eaton, Treasurer,
23 Centre St., N. Y., P. O. Box 3863.
RECEIPTS FOR SUSTENTATION IN JUNE, 1880.
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 77 cts. St. Lawrence — Oswegatchie 2d, 4 75.
Utica — Rome, 10 33. 15 85
Cleveland. — Mahoning — Brookfield, 3; Vienna, 3.
Steubenville — Annapolis, from J. Gault, Sr., 5; Two
Ridges, 6. 17 00
Columbus. — Athens — New England, 2. Wooster —
Chester, 3; Congress, 4; Dalton, 8; Jackson, 5 48;
Mt. Eaton, 1 ; Perrysville, 5 ; Wayne, 3. Zanesville —
Concord, 3. 34 48
Erie. — Allegheny — Springdale, 4. Butler — Clinton-
ville, 2 ; Harrisville, 1 ; Middlesex, 2; Summit, 1.
10 00
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 4 90. Steuben —
Corning, 2 67. 7 57
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — R. & R., 2 54. Huntingdon
— Clearfield, 24 ; Perrysville, 5 24. Northumberland —
Bloomsburg, 10. Wellsboro' — Wellsboro’, 2 45. 44 23
Illinois Central. — Peoria — Green Valley, 3; Yates
City, 3. Springfield — Jacksonville Westminster,
24 55. 30 55
Illinois North — Fi-eeport — Woodstock, 10 75. Rock
River — Fulton, 1. 11 75
Illinois South. — Alton — Carrollton, 1 53; Virden,
1 55. 3 08
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Franklin, 9. 9 00
Iowa North. — Cedar Rapids — Mt. Vernon, 8. 8 00
Iowa South. — Des Moines — Lineville, 3. Iowa City
— Montezuma, 18. 21 00
Kansas. — Emporia — Atchison, 4 ; Florence, 2. 6 00
Kentucky. — Louisville — Princeton 1st, 9 35. 9 35
Michigan. — Detroit — Ann Arbor. 8 75; Dearborn,
2 ; East Nankin, 2. 12 75
Minnesota. — St. Pawl— Rice's Point, 1. 1 00
Missouri. — Palmyra — Moberly, 10. 10 00
New Jersey. — Morris and Orange — East Orange,
3 06. Newark — Newark Central, 21. Newton — Bel-
videre 1st, 6 56. 30 62
New York. — Boston — South Boston, 5. Hudson —
Goodwill, 3 06; Middletown 2d, 1 98; Scotchtown,
1 72. Westchester — Katonah, 3. 14 76
Philadelphia. — Chester — Avondale, 4 50. Lacka-
wanna— Langcliffe, 5. Lehigh — Lower Mt. Bethel, 3 ;
Summit Hill (sab-sch., 68 cts., Jamestown sab-sch.,
17 cts.), 2 38. Philadelphia — South Western, 3 90.
Philadelphia North — Deep Run and Doylestown, 10.
Westminster — Pequea, 10. 38 78
Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh — East Liberty, 43; Pitts-
burgh 2d, 11 13 ; Pittsburgh Shady Side, 20 61. 74 74
Texas. — Austin — Brownwood, 2. 2 00
Western New York. — Rochester — Lima, 1 38; Ro-
chester Central, 4 58. 5 96
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Oconto, 5. Milwaukee
— Ottawa, 40 cts. 5 40
Total received from churches, $423 87
miscellaneous.
“ Cash,” 6 38
Total received in June, 1880 : $430 25
O. D. EATON, Treasurer,
(P. O. Box 3863) 23 Centre Street, New York.
' Letters relating to Missionary Appointments and
other operations of the Board should be addressed to
the Corresponding Secretaries,
Rev. Henry Kendall, D,D., or
Rev. Cyrus Dickson, D.D.
Letters relating to the pecuniary affairs of the
Board, or containing remittances of money, should be
sent to O. D. Eaton, Esq., Treasurer — same address—
P. O. Box 3863.
1880.]
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DR. R. M. PATTERSON’S ARTICLE IN THE PRESBYTERIAN REVIEW FOR
JULY, 1880.
This article we commend to the thoughtful perusal of all who wish to
get as thorough a knowledge of the condition and needs of our ministry
as a careful study of our statistics and wide investigation of facts and
opinions can furnish. It was originally a paper read before the meeting
of the Alumni of Princeton Seminary last spring, and prepared for it
by special request. Much labor has been bestowed on it, and we believe
that the statements made and conclusions drawn may be relied on as
being as near the truth as the nature of the subject admits. We wish
that it could be read by all our ministers and elders, and all interested
in the welfare of our church. It would servp to rectify many crude
notions now too prevalent, whioh are founded upon imperfect data and
partial observations, and which in their random utterances are doing the
church serious hurt. If the question in regard to an excess of minis-
ters cannot be decided by the study of statistics, as has been said by
some, it surely cannot be better decided by a reference to a few partic-
ular cases of ministers here and there unable to obtain settlement, and
of vacant churches besieged by troops of applicants. There are always
exceptional cases which on examination would actually confirm the
rules, and there is always a liability to adduce instances in proof of a
position taken which are not at all to the point. This fact has pre-
sented itself to our notice continually. Time and again have we been
pointed to a minister without charge and unable to get one — an excel-
lent man, of good attainments, desirous of doing good anywhere, and
whom we have tried to introduce into various places, and have discov-
ered the obstacle to his acceptableness to lie in some defect of delivery,
some lack of skill to adapt his subjects to his audience, some incapacity
to hold the attention of the people which inevitably precludes success.
Now persons may complain that the people are too fastidious, and too
ambitious to get a higher order of talents than they have any right to
expect, and all that ; but so long as our system of providing pastors is
not one of appointment, but by popular election, we must take things as
they are, and adapt ourselves accordingly. One thing is very certain :
churches will not long consent to tolerate pastors who are incapable
of edifying and building them up. The time for people’s going to
church as a simple matter of conscience is wellnigh past. If they can-
not find interest or profit in the sanctuary, they stay at home, or go to
some place where they can find it. It was but the other day we had
the good fortune to be a listener, and sat where we ought to have caught
every syllable of the sermon ; but all we got after hard listening was a
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few crumbs. The utterance was a mash of words. We looked around
on the audience to observe how the preaching took, and sawr it compar-
atively listless. We made inquiry afterwards of individuals present,
and found they had been troubled by the indistinctness of pronuncia-
tion, and some could not even tell the subject. The chief power of that
minister in that place was in his excellent character and faithful per-
sonal labors. Now if for any reason his connection with his present
people should he dissolved, we will venture to say he will find it hard
to he reinstalled, from the simple fact that his merits will he decided
upon while a candidate by the exhibition he makes of his rhetorical
abilities in one day’s preaching. And this is precisely the case with
many of our unemployed ministers. They are judged off-hand by their
pulpit efforts ; and these, however matured in thought, prove oftentimes
defective in delivery. There is either indistinct articulation, or a sopo-
rific monotone, or a lack of earnestness and force, or some trick of voice
which tends to make the thought of little effect. Now, as Dr. Guthrie
said, “delivery is the powder which carries the shot;” and it is to be
feared that we Presbyterians, while very artistic in the manufacture of
our shot, are very careless about the quality of our powder. Put a
half-educated but earnest, strong-lunged Methodist alongside of many
of our best-cultured men, and he will draw off the crowds. What he
knows he can tell in a way that people shall hear and understand ; and
this it is that takes. Now we sincerely believe — and we say it in all
kindness and love — if many of our ministers who are without charges
would just go to some faithful friend and ask for candid criticism upon
their manner and style, and be willing to find out what makes them
unacceptable, and would set to work removing the obstruction, they
would find no trouble in obtaining settlements. We express only a
widespread opinion when we say that one great reason for the popularity
of those who have come into our pulpits from abroad is that they know
how to catch the ear by their rich, full, clear tones. Listening to them
is not effort, but pleasure.
But enough on this head. The conclusion we are making for is that
it is no sign that there are too many ministers because some excellent,
cultivated ones cannot get places. Before we accept the proof we must
hear them preach. ( To be continued.)
r
A NEW DEPARTURE. .
Providence seems to he leading the work of the Board of Education
in new directions. Already have we been educating negroes for Africa;
but now we are invited to help educate Chinese for their countrymen
here and in China, and Hindoos for India. Three of the former — mem-
bers of our California churches — spoken of by their pastor as able and
pious young men, every way trustworthy, and desirous of becoming
1880.]
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257
missionaries to their people, have been proffered to us with the assurance
of having our scholarships for them supplemented by the benevolence
of persons interested in them, and of their being well provided for with
suitable instruction. Also from the Lahore Presbytery, North India,
there comes to us the son of one of our native pastors of long standing,
to be trained under our care in our institutions. He brings with him
some means of support (but not enough to carry him through), and
strong recommendations.
Thus are u our sons coming to us from far,” and the distant fields of
Christendom are “ flowing together.” Is it not that “ our hearts may
be enlarged,” and that we may rise to a broader comprehension of the
work set before us ? We know that the policy of educating heathen
converts here for laboring among their countrymen is questioned by
some, because of its tendency to denationalize them ; but, in reply to
this, one of our missionaries writes : “ A liberal policy with regard to
foreign converts will do much to elevate the character of the ministry
in mission fields. I regard all talk about denationalizing Hindus as
antiquated. Thousands are becoming more or less denationalized daily,
who never see a foreign shore. Education and Christianity are in
themselves denationalizing. Let us see to it that we raise up men who
can combine the new elements in India with a strong holy church.” To
this view are our missionaries coming more and more. If we would
render our mission churches abroad speedily independent and self-
sustaining and aggressive, we must give them ministers equal to the
best in all Christian culture, and capable of forming a Christian liter-
ature for their countrymen, both by transfusing the wealth of thought
found in already Christianized languages into their own, and by the
production of what is original. Our native ministers cannot with safety
or credit remain behind those of their countrymen who, having received
their education in the best universities of England and America and
Germany, return to their native land to become the leaders there in
thought and science, and in all practical affairs. And before we launch
them forth from under our care to cope with the manifold adversaries they
will have to encounter, our policy should be to give them all the advan-
tage within our reach. Infant churches need Pauls for their planting
and watering ; and, if the Board is to help in furnishing these Pauls, must
it not be provided with the means ? God grant that our churches may
prove equal to the demands that God seems to be making upon them !
NOTICE OF EDUCATIONAL WORK AMONG THE CONGREGATION A LISTS.
Recently there has come to hand the Sixth Annual Report of the
American College and Education Society, which is a combination of
the American Education Society, organized sixty-four years ago, and of
the College Society, organized thirty-eight years ago. From this
Report we gather a few facts of interest. One is that belonging to
this society there is a Permanent Scholarship Fund and Secretary Fund
amounting to $83,500 13. The income from this fund “ serves as a
balance wheel” in its operations, and is very helpful year by year.
This fact suggests the question why the Presbyterian Church should
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not, through its Board of Education, have endowments for scholarships
as well as through its various literary and theological institutions.
There would be peculiar advantages in such arrangements well worth
securing ; and we see not why the church at large could not be as
faithful a guardian of educational funds as our trustees and colleges.
Another fact we notice is that the Gongregationalists had under aid
last year 367 students ; though, in consequence of their peculiar system
of counting — covering as it does portions of two collegiate years — only
280 were receiving aid during any one quarter. The appropriations
last year were $75 to each student, instead of the $100 which was aimed
at. Since 1816 the society has aided 6724 students.
The Congregationalists aid weak colleges at the West. Thus many
an institution has been saved and blessed. Eight colleges were strength-
ened last year with various sums. Might not Presbyterians carry out a
like policy to great advantage ?
RECEIPTS FOR EDUCATION IN JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Columbia — Greenville, 4. Troy — Me-
chanicsville, 2 9U ; Whitehall, 5 25. 12 15
Atlantic. — Fairfield — Chester sab-sch., 3 30;
Tabor, 3 70. 7 00
Central New York — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 89 cts. 0 89
Cincinnati. — Cincinnati — Cincinnati 7th, 21 28;
Pleasant Ridge, 10. Portsmouth — Russelville, 2 77.
34 05
Cleveland. — St. Clairsville — Crab Apple, 8 57.
Steubenville — Annapolis, from John Gault, Sr., 10.
18 57
Columbus. — Marion — Trenton, 4 42. Zanesville —
Concord, 3. 7 42
Erie. — Butler — Clintonville, 2. Erie — Venango, 3.
Shenango — Clarksville, 21 70 ; Hermon, 10. 36 70
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 5 50. Geneva —
Bellona, 20; Penn Yan, 27 05; Seneca Castle, 3.
Steuben — Corning, 3. 58 55
Harrisburg.— Carlisle — Big Spring, 34 24; Harris-
burg 7th St., 5; Mechanicsburg, 11. Huntingdon —
Beulah, 3; East Kishacoquillas, 18; McVeytown,
21 50; Perrysville, 5 90. Northumberland— Brier
Creek, 2; Chillisquaque, 5; Mooresburg, 4; New
Columbia, 2. Wellsboro' — Wellsboro’, 2 75. 114 39
Illinois Central. — Bloomington — Chenoa, 4.
Peoria — Prospect, 20 ; Yates City, 4. 28 00
Illinois North. — Chicago — Joliet 1st, 6 70; Peo-
tone. 8. Freeport — Belvidere, 8; Zion, 7. Rock River
— Fulton, 1 14. 30 84
Illinois South. — Alton — Carrolton, 1 72; Virden,
1 74. 3. 46
Indiana North. — Crawfordsville — Crawfordsville
Centre, 9. Fort Wayne— Warsaw, 10 40. Muncie —
Wabash, 3 44. . 22 84
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Indianapolis 7th,
2 71. 2 71
Iowa North. — Fort Dodge — Grand Junction, 3.
3 00
Iowa’ South. — Council Bluffs — Corning, 4 65. Iowa
— Mount Pleasant, German, 6 60 ; Pleasant Plain, 1 20 ;
Salina, 1. Iowa City — Montezuma, 6. 19 45
Kansas. — Highland — Atchison, 4. 4 00
Kentucky.— Louisville— Louisville Broadway Taber-
nacle, 1 3Q. 1 30
Long Island. — Brooklyn — Brooklyn Tliroop Ave-
nue, 43 70; Brooklyn Westminster, 206 57. 250 27
Michigan. — Detroit — Plymouth 2d, 1. Saginaw—
Vassar, 7 80. 8 80
Minnesota. — St. Paul — Rice’s Point, 1. Winona —
Taopi, 1. 2 00
Missouri. — Palmyra — Moberly, sp., 10. 10 00
Nebraska. — Nebraska City — Hickman, 5; Meridian,
12. Omaha— Elk Valley, 2 15. 19 15
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Elizabeth 2d, 20 56; Eliz-
abeth 1st German, 4; Roselle 1st, 4 73. Morris and
Orange — East Orange, 3 44. Newark — Newark 2d,
16; Newark High Street, 86. New Brunswick — Tren-
ton 4th, 11. West Jersey — Camden 2d, 20; Fairfield,
5 10. 170 83
New York. — Hudson — Goshen, 21 26; Goodwill,
3 44; Middletown 2d, 2 22 ; Ridgbury, 32 cts. ; Scotch-
town, 1 93 ; Washingtonville 2d, 4. New York — New
York Madison Square Memorial Chapel, 2; New York
Immanuel Chapel, 2 75. Westchester — Bedford, 15 ;
Croton Falls, 9 4» ; Patterson, 6. 68 37
Philadelphia. — Chester — Chester 3d, 38 27; Great
Valley, 24 50 ; Dilworthtown, 9. Lackawanna — Can-
ton, 10; Scranton 1st, 81. Lehigh — Jamestown sab-
sch., 19 cts. ; Summit Hill, 1 72, sab-sch., 77 cts. (2 49).
Philadelphia — Philadelphia 4th, 10. Philadelphia
North — Chestnut Hill, 100. Westminster — Leacock
8 ; York, 94 45. 377 90
Pittsburgh. — Blairsville — Ebensburg, 6. Pitts-
burgh— East Liberty, 21 ; Pittsburgh 2d, 12 99 ; Pitts-
burgh Shady Side, 20 61. Washington — East Buffalo,
14. West Virginia — Glenville, 6 60. 81 20
Toledo. — Bellefontaine — Bellefontaine, 2 27; Mar-
seilles, 5 50. Maumee — Ridgeville, 1.‘ 8 77
Western New York. — Rochester — Lima, 1 56;
Mount Morris, 9 70; Rochester Central, 45 82;
Sparta 1st, 5. » 62 08
Wisconsin. — Milwaukee — Ottawa, 47 cts. Winne-
bago— Stevens Point, 4 90. 5 37
Total from Churches $1470 06
LEGACIES.
Estate of Rev. J. Rogers, Hammofid, N. Y.,
$25 ; Estate of James M. Preston, Boone Co.,
Ky., $400 425 00
refunded.
R. E. McC., $35, “ I. A. C.,” $17 52 00
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev. E. L. Sherman, Nassau, N. Y., $3; L.
O E $1 ; Rev. S. M. Perry, Ashland, Md.,
$20 ; “ C., Conn.,” $1 ; Cash, $7 17 ; R. & R.,
$2 86; Int. on A. Guy’s note, $60; Interest
on Permanent Funds, $973 50 1068 53
Total receipts in June, 1880 $3015 59
E. G. WOODWARD, Treasurer ,
1334 Chestnut St., Phila.
Reports and correspondence relating to the gefieral
business of the Board, address to
Rev. D. W. Poor, D.D.,
• Corresponding Secretary.
1880.]
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BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS.
RECENT INTELLIGENCE.
Notices of Missionaries. — The Rev. J. F. Holcomb and his wife,
from India, have arrived in this country; and the Rev. D. N. Lyon and
his family, from China. The Rev. D. McGilvary, on his return from
Bangkok, concluded . to spend some months at Rahang — an important
town on the Meinam, which has been under consideration as a station of
the Laos Mission. Mr. McGilvary has a native Christian helper with
him. They were cordially received by the people.
Added to the Church. — Three of the Creek scholars at Tallahassee
were lately admitted to the communion of the ghurch by Mr. Robertson.
Two Japanese converts were baptized at Shimonoseki by Mr. Alexander
on a visit, and a church was organized at Yunagawa, of ten communi-
cants. Forty-nine adults were baptized by Dr. Nevius, and fifty-seven
by Mr. Corbett, on recent missionary journeys in Shantung, China.
Mr. Ward reports the baptism of three adults at Tabriz, Persia — two
Armenians, and one a Mohammedan woman. The latter died a few
■weeks later, confessing only the name of Jesus, though her daughters
urged her many times to call upon Mohammed or Ali. Mr. Houston,
of Rio de Janeiro, reports three new communicants as received, two of
whom were Italians.
A Large “Parish.” — On his missionary journey, above mentioned,
Dr. Nevius was aiming at a certain degree of systematic labor. In a
district 200 miles by 100 in extent, he selected eighteen places as centres,
and set several native Christian assistants at work, under his supervision ;
besides giving his own full time for several months to evangelizing labors.
In this they met with marked encouragement. But the population of
this district is 5,000,000, and there were no other missionaries — surely
too few !
From Syria. — Dr. Jessup sends interesting notices of various mat-
ters, which reach us too late for insertion in our columns. Among these
is the action of a Mohammedan conference of learned men, discounte-
nancing noisy funeral observances, and the resort of women to funerals
and cemeteries — the latter alleged to be productive of much evil. In
the former, public sentiment is shown as favoring the decorum of Prot-
estant services. Dr. Jessup refers to the state of things at Constanti-
nople and in Turkey at large as deplorably unsettled and unsatisfactory.
Many of the Syrian people would be glad to be independent of the Turk-
ish rule. It is evident, we think, that the Mussulman power in Western
Asia is seriously shaken.
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Letters Received to July 13th. — From the Seneca Mission, June
12th; Omaha, July 8th; Dakota, June 14th; Creek, June 3d; Nez
Perces, June 2d; Yokohama, May 18th; Yedo, June 3d; Chefoo,
June 1st; Soochow, June 4th; Ningpo, May 11th; Shanghai, June
8th ; Canton, May 22d ; Chiengmai, March 20th ; Rahang, April 14th ;
Futtehgurh, May 12th; Mynpoorie, May 17 th; Lahor, May 21st;
Rawal Pindi, May 15th ; Panada, May 10th ; Tabriz, June 5th ; Beirut,
June 16th ; Tripoli, May 30th ; Gaboon, May 22d ; Rio de Janeiro,
June 7th; Bahia, June 12th.
RECEIPTS IN MAY AND JUNE.
From churches. Individual donors. Bequests.
1880. $19,573 $23,453 $38,192
1879. 17,613 3,378 1,413
ESTIMATED EXPENSES AND INCOME, 1880-81.
The Board has given much study to the estimates of the expenses
of the missions for the current year. These reach the large sum of
$535,248. The increase over last year’s expenditure for the same
objects is partly owing to the withdrawing of restrictions which seemed
to be necessary heretofore, but it is chiefly owing to the growth of our
work in the fields of most of our missions.
After carefully considering the sources of its income, the Board felt
authorized to approve of this estimated expenditure. It is expected
that a considerable sum will be received this year also from the bequests
of departed friends, though not so large as was received last year. The
usual collections of the churches, ever the main source of supply, will
be considerably enlarged, as it is believed; and the gifts of the Woman’s
Boards they intend to make still larger. The donations of friends, as
given separately, will not fall off, as it is hoped, but become even more
liberal. With the blessing of God, a sufficient income will be secured.
The Board agreed, further, to hold in reserve the estimated sum of
$29,230 additional, mostly representing buildings that are Called for —
dwelling-houses and chapels ; but it will gladly authorize the expenditure
of this sum as soon as its funds will permit.
We are grateful for the progress of this work for our Lord and
Saviour, which these financial statements betoken ; and we are grateful
also for the belief that our Christian people will be enabled to supply
all needed means for the steady advance of this cause.
Total.
$81,219
22,405
NEW INDIAN WORK.
Our readers will be glad to see what the brethren, Messrs. Williamson
and Wood, say of the new station of the Dakota Mission at Poplar
1880.]
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River Reserve, near Fort Peck, on the Upper Missouri. It is far away,
and privations and difficulties must be expected ; but we trust a good
work for the Indians is there waiting for the devoted laborers.
The Board has given its consent to send missionaries to two tribes,
as yet unsupplied, one in Nebraska, the other in Utah. In both the
way seems to be prepared, excepting that the laborers are not yet
offered. Practical, sensible, energetic, devoted men and women are
needed, two ministers — married men, of but small families. With such
the Board would be glad to correspond.
POPLAR RIVER, MONTANA.
This is the name of the new station of the Dakota Mission, selected
by the Rev. John P. Williamson and the Rev. George Wood, Jr. It is
in the Fort Peck Agency of the U. S. Government. Interesting partic-
ulars are given by Mr. Wood concerning the Indians at this place.
Under date of June 10, 1880, he writes, after his return to Yankton
Agency, as follows :
We have been led to look upon Poplar River, Montana, as the best
place for the new station. Many of the Indians who had gone into
British America have returned, and there are now about 7500 people
under the care of Major Porter, the Agent there, nearly 2000 more
than there were a year ago. It is the largest Agency among the Sioux,
and but three in the whole country exceed it. . . . Poplar River is on
the north side of the Missouri, seventy-five miles beyond Fort Buford,
and of course considerably more by the river. The Indians all under-
stand Dakota, and most of them the Yankton dialect. About 1500
are Assiniboins, living at Wolf Point, twenty-five miles above, by land,
and forty- five by water. The rest, chiefly Yanktonnais and Unkpapa
Tetons, live in the old-fashioned Dakota tipis or tents of buffalo-hide,
about the Agency and half a dozen miles below, a few being also on
the south side of the Missouri.
In summer they are scattered, hunting. This year they do it not
only of choice, but of necessity. The stores in the Agent’s hands this
spring have been so scanty that, by putting the people on half-rations,
he has barely been able to feed them till the land was planted ; and now
the chase is the only thing that stands between them and starvation
while their crops are growing. Mr. Mathews, the Chief of Police at
Wolf Point, is said to be a California Indian by birth, educated at the
East. He is a member of the Methodist church, and appears to be
highly esteemed for Christian character and the cool courage npedful
in the exercise of his office. With the help of his wife, who is a
Dakota half-breed, he maintains a small Sabbath-school at Wolf Point.
At Poplar River the people are in utter darkness, except so far as a few
of them have heard a little of the gospel when they have been at places
occupied by missionaries. The sun is apparently their greatest god,
and their young men still submit to the tortures of the sun-dance. The
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Agent appears to have the wisdom, patience, and firmness requisite for
his difficult task, and to be sincerely devoting himself to the improve-
ment of the Indians.
Mr. Williamson, under date of June 14, at his own station, refers to
the Agencies visited on this exploring tour, and thus speaks of Standing
Rock, one of them, which they had at one time thought of choosing as a
station :
At Standing Rock there are some 2400 Indians at this time. The
Catholics are prosecuting their work with considerable vigor, but mostly
with government funds. They claim a considerable number of members
(baptized persons), but even these are only a small part of the tribe.
The bulk of the Indians are entirely heathen, and need missionary
instruction as much as if there were no Romanists there. There are
also three or four companies of soldiers at the post adjoining the Agency
(Fort Yates), who have no religious instruction, and should have some
attention. Although it was not from any very perfect knowledge, a
number of Indians expressed themselves as desirous of a Presbyterian
missionary. Though we have this time given Standing Rock the go-by,
I am still much interested in the place, and hope the present wave of
interest in Indian missions may result in furnishing us a missionary for
that place.
Poplar River Agency, upon which we have now located, is 1200 miles
above this by water and 700 by land. The nearest post-office is Fort
Buford, D. T. — about 70 miles below, at the mouth of the Yellowstone.
There are now on the Agency over 4000 Sioux, and 1600 Assiniboins
who also talk the Sioux language. They are the most destitute, beg-
garly-looking Indians I have seen for many a year. Their naked bodies
with an old robe tied about them, which they open out to show their
protruding bones as they ask you for a cracker, remind me of the
prairie Indians I used to see when a boy, before the government com-
menced issuing supplies to Indians.
ACCOUNTS FROM TABRIZ, PERSIA.
The Rev. S. L. Ward, under date of June 5, 1880, gives the
notices inserted below. We are glad to learn from the preceding
part of his letter that the prospects of harvest were remarkably good.
The famine had not ceased at the date of his letter, but the price of
bread had fallen largely — though still four times above the usual rate.
The relief funds sent had been of great benefit to the poor people.
At our last communion (held each month) we admitted the wife of
one of our Armenian church members, and examined and admitted to
the communion one Armenian from Maragha, who is the second person
received by us in that city. The Seyid — descendant of Mohammed —
whom I baptized there two years ago, was also present at that season.
A Jewish physician, who has been under probation, and who received
baptism in Ardebil, was not received by the church, on account of
1880.]
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careless conduct on his part, though I trust it may appear that he was not
guilty of any real sin. The mother of our Mirza Ali, who was baptized
in her own home some weeks since, has died in the hope of resurrection
in Christ. She was the first Mussulman woman I have baptized, and
I think the first in Tabriz. She was almost unconscious for a week
before her death ; and her daughters asked her many times to say, “ 0,
Mohammed!” or “0, Ali!” in vain; but when her son said to her,
“Mother, say ‘0, Jesus!’” by a great effort she spoke the words
distinctly.
During the winter I have been crowding the Bible w’ork a little, and
the result has been a great increase of sales. I have had three men
part of the time, and one all of the time, at work in Tabriz. One of
these men had given a Bible to a captain in the army, and could neither
get the book nor his money ; so, without asking advice, he took the
matter to the hall of justice, and recovered his» money before a Mussul-
man judge. I reproved him for doing such a thing without advice;
but was rather glad to find that the thing could be done. In spite of the
famine, more books have been sold than for a long time.
Kasha Moshe has just returned from a tour to Ardebil. I have not
yet seen him to take his report ; but from his letters would make you a
partial report. He baptized one Mussulman and one Davidee — follower
of David. Had great numbers to hear him. Some Mollahs complained
to the Prince, who is governor there, that if , this man was not punished
he would ruin Islam. The governor replied to them, “ Give him an
answer out of our law: I cannot use force.” The Prince then
wished to herald through the bazaars that no one should touch this man ;
but Kasha restrained him by saying that we did not wish such help for
our spiritual work.
Owing to the unsettled state of the country, journeys have not been
possible to any extent. Shamosha Baba was in Maragha some weeks,
and helped Shamosha Moshe, the helper settled there. There seem to be
some five or six persons there ready, or nearly so, to join in forming a
church. A young Seyid, who seems very hopeful, was taken by some
Mollah before the governor and accused of having become an Armenian.
He said to the governor, “ I am ‘faiil rnuktar.’ If I am on the way to
hell, I compel no one to go with me; on the other had, if I have found
life, what will this Mollah do?” This “faiil rnuktar” is the expression
of Islam for “free agency,” combined with the idea of personal respon-
sibility. When the governor heard what he had to say, he replied,
“Yes, you are ‘faiil rnuktar,’ and you can do as you please,” and
dismissed the case.
Failing to obtain a teacher for the training class last autumn, we were
not able to do much, and did not receive many boys. Stephen, an
Armenian boy, has gone home to Korvi, and opened a school. He
reports thirty-two scholars, and the parents wish a preacher sent there.
Ali has gone home also, to Ilkachu, a village eighteen miles west of us,
and opened a school of twenty scholars. All the people of the village
are Ali-illanhus, or believers in the divinity of Ali. They are generally
supposed to be the remains of heathenism ; but I believe them to be the
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remains of Christianity, for they have two rites which resemble baptism
and the eucharist. And not all are members of the inside body, but
are admitted by a catechetical examination. When you speak to them
of Christ, they say that he and Ali are the same. My theory is that
they took the name of Ali as a cover for the name of Christ, and after-
wards forgot the meaning in the form.
Mrs. Van Hook’s school closed about five weeks ago, with a very
creditable examination.
Yarrow, one of the Oroomiah graduates, is now here, and we expect
to send him to Maragha to open a school and help Sh. Moshe. They
wish our Kasha Moshe in Oroomiah to tend to the Mussulman work ; and
we do not feel like denying them anything that will tend to open that
work more there, and we need a better preacher here than he. We also
need a man for Ardebil. You see the work is crowding us, and we need
the new man you are sending us. Tours ought to be made in three
directions as soon as possible.
NATIVE MISSIONARIES AT HOSHYARPUR, INDIA.
( Continued from page 190.)
2. We have also to mention with gratitude the most eager hearing
accorded to the gospel throughout the year. Our daily preaching in
the bazaars of the town was well attended, and many listeners often fol-
lowed us after it was over to our house to inquire more leisurely on the
subjects of the discourse. The same may be said of our Sunday and
Thursday services in the chapel. Often the little house was filled with
the most attentive and respectful hearers. The reading-room was the
most favorite resort of the people, who came from the district to trans-
act business in the town. We performed extensive itinerations through-
out the cold weather and a part of the summer, spending upwards of two
hundred days, and in almost every place it was encouraging to notice
signs of progress and improvement. The kingdom of heaven is evidently
making its way into the hearts and consciences of men, and preparing
them for the reception of the Lord. Active opposition was offered no-
where. In one or two places only, the people were indifferent to our
message. In the rest they heard our tidings with gladness and interest.
There were inquirers and men full of regard for the Saviour in several
places. In one place an old Mohammedan offered his grandson, a lad
of fourteen, to me to be brought up in the Christian faith, and in
another a Hindoo widow did the same with her two young children.
The town of Mi&ni, a Patban settlement on the left bank of the Beas,
and hitherto known in our journals as the most notorious for opposition
and bigotry, gave us the most gracious welcome. We spent two days in
this place preaching the gospel and conversing with the people in the
doctrines of Christ. When we left, we could not help thinking our
hearers had received the seed in good ground, and will one day “ bring
forth fruit, some an hundred fold, some sixty, and some thirty.”
[Mr. Chaterjee mentions some of the objections of his countrymen to
his message. 1. The standing Mohammedan difficulty as to the sonship
1880.]
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and divine nature of Christ. 2. The Hindoo objection of the non-ob-
servance of caste by Christians. 3. The doctrine of the vicarious suffer-
ings of our Lord, equally objected to by Mohammedans and heathens.
4. Prejudice against Christianity as the religion of a conquering race.
5. The greatest difficulty to many, that of a supreme, personal God, so
irreconcilable with their Pantheistic training. Want of space compels
the omission here of these things.
He then specifies a third cause of thankfulness, the return of two mem-
bers of the church, who had fallen away from their Christian profession ;
and a fourth reason of thankfulness — ]
That our work amongst the female portion of the population has gone
on quietly and prosperingly during the last year. Hannah has con-
tinued her Bible-reading amongst the women in their zenanas, and the
girls’ school has maintained its influence and character for usefulness in
the town. One of our oldest pupils has become an assistant teacher,
and is helping in the instructions of the lower classes. There were sixty
girls on the roll at the close of the year, with an average daily attendance
of thirty-nine.
[The latter part of this report describes the apostacy of four of the church
members after several years of Christian profession. One of them was
of a high caste, and desired to have his daughters married to persons
of the same rank, while the converts were mostly of lower social grade.
Another wished to marry another wife, his first wife uniting with him in
desiring this measure, both influenced by views of property to be re-
tained in the family. The other two cases were of less note. But all
were discouraging and injurious. The missionary closes his report with
a prayer that the Lord may preserve his own from falling, strengthen
their faith, and make his servants more than ever faithful and diligent
in his work.]
VISIT TO SHIMONOSEKI, JAPAN.
The Bev. T. T. Alexander, under date of June 3, 1880, at Yedo,
gives an account of a month’s visit at Shimonoseki. It is very interest-
ing to see such evidence of the divine blessing on the work of the native
missionary brethren.
I left home on 21st of April, and in due time arrived in Shimonoseki ;
remained there about one month, and returned home a few days since.
If you will bear with me, therefore, I will give some little account of
what I learned in regard to the place and the work that is going on
there. Shimonoseki is not, as I had supposed before, a small village of
poor fishermen’s huts. It is fringed along the shore of the inland sea
for four or five miles, and contains twenty-five or thirty thousand in-
habitants. The houses are good and the people, for the most part, well
to do ; many of them rich. The situation of the town, besides being
exceedingly beautiful and picturesque, is very important. It is practi-
cally the metropolis of a large tract of country, and there is a strong
probability that it will soon be made an open port. The lack of a good
harbor is the only drawback.
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When the two native brethren, Messrs. Hattori and Aoyama, first
went and began their labors there, they met with great opposition, not
from the government or any of its officials, but from the Buddhist priests.
They were charged with all sorts of bad motives, and were unsparingly
and unceasingly denounced as wicked and designing men, and were even
threatened with violence in the streets. And although at first some few
came to hear what they had to say, it soon came to pass that they were
left without hearers almost entirely. In addition to this, they found it
difficult to rent houses to live in, so that for awhile it seemed that they
would be compelled to give up and leave the place altogether. Still
they prayed and labored on, and in the course of time matters began to
assume a more hopeful aspect ; they began to be treated with more re-
spect, their audiences began to grow larger, and soon there was a small
company of men who came regularly to their meetings. So when I ar-
rived there, a little more than a month ago, I found quite a number who
were diligently inquiring after the truth. Among them were two or
three who had already received pretty thorough instruction, and were
apparently on the point of becoming Christians. Two of these I bap-
tized before I came away.
There are others who will probably become believers in the course of
time. It is not difficult to find individuals who are ready to assent to
the truth of Christianity intellectually, but these do not always give
evidence of having embraced Christ as their own personal Saviour, and
consequently are not fit subjects for baptism. Of the two whom I bap-
tized in Shimonoseki, one is a man of some education, which, together
with his wealth, renders him a man of influence. He would not com-
monly be called wealthy, and yet he is so compared with the majority of
his class. The other one is a poor man, but he gave good evidence of
his having become heir to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, which
fadeth not away. The two brethren who are preaching there rejoice
greatly in these first fruits. They have been very faithful in preaching
and teaching, and the Lord has blessed them. They both said that they
had grown in grace more rapidly, or, at least, more perceptibly, since
going down there, than at any other period in their lives.
While down there, Rev. Mr. Aoyama and I went over into the prov-
ince of Kisuhin to Yanagawa and organized a church there, with ten
or eleven adult members and four or five baptized children. As you are
aware, Mr. Shima, who used to be in Tokiyo or Yedo, has been laboring
at that place for a year or two, and this church, by the blessing of God,
is due to his labors. There was one other man there who desired bap-
tism and also wished to unite with the church, but could not do so with-
out incurring the displeasure of his parents. After hearing his case, we
advised him to continue his reading of the Scriptures and prayer; in a
word, to be steadfast in the faith, but to postpone his baptism for a time.
The work is encouraging both in Shimonoseki and in Yanagawa. Thus
far the labors of the native preachers who have gone into the interior
have been signally blessed, so that, if we had the men and the means, it
would be well to give more attention to this branch of the work.
There are many things in my mind which I might write, in regard to
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the work and workers in the region which I have just visited, but it
would just be the old story of trial and difficulty on the one hand and joy
and blessing on the other ; in short, the story of missionary work.
I am now engaged in teaching in the boys’ school here in Tokiyo.
The school is full and gives us enough work to keep us busy. We are
all glad to have it in this city, where its influence will be greater and
more widely felt than in Yokohama.
THE DIFFICULTIES WE MEET WITH IN MADAGASCAR.
We have that great separation of districts ; the great distances we have to
travel, and that is a difficulty not easily overcome. Then we must remember
the gross heathenism of the people; we must remember their servile nature;
how ready they are to follow those in authority ; how, ready they are to bow in
subjection to those set over them in worldly things. It is a difficulty we have to
battle with again and again ; for unless we can secure the approbation of the
local governors our work is sometimes at a standstill. Then trade in Madagascar
is not the help it ought to be ; it is mostly an ungodly trade — it is rum, gun-
powder, and guns. And while the Queen and her husband, the Prime Minister,
are stanch teetotallers, and would keep all intoxicating spirits out of the island,
it is British interests, French interests, and American interests which are being
forced upon the people, and barrels of rum are taken there against the express
wish and law of the Queen and the Prime Minister. Then you must remember
that we have the Catholic priests there, and they persecute the people in the
distant districts. In one district where I labored two years, the priests have had
all the evangelists put into chains, and mahy a poor lad has been persecuted
almost to death by those who go out as the professed servants of the Lord Jesus
Christ. They (the priests) know that the people love the Bible, and they taunt
us in their publications, circulated over the country, with these words, u \rou sell
your Bibles to keep your wives and children.” I hope we shall sell thousands
more, not to keep our wives and children, but to bring peace and happiness to
the wives and to the little children of Madagascar, who would not know what
peace and happiness were but for the gospel. Then, again, we are troubled and
hindered on every side by want of men. There is an impression abroad that
Madagascar has been pampered and nursed. Why, it has been just the reverse.
For every missionary on the island there are forty churches to be taken care of,
and for every one at liberty to do direct evangelistic work there are sixty churches
waiting for him. — Rev. J. Richardson , May 13, 1880.
RECEIPTS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS IN JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Albany — Princeton, 24 10; Galway, 4 50.
Champlain — Mooers, 5. - 33 60
Atlantic. — Catawba — Concord, 2 25 ; Dutchman’s
Creek, 1 ; Woodland, 38 cts. East Florida — St. Au-
gustine, 17. 20 63'
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Ckurchville, 15. 15 00
Central New York. — Binghamton — Deposit 1st,
7 20; Binghamton North, 4 73. Otsego — Gilberts-
ville, 55. St. Lawrence — Morristown, 4 25, sab-sch.
class, 1 30 (5 55). Syracuse — Skaneateles, 100.
172 48
Cincinnati. — Cincinnati — Loveland sab-sch., sp.,
17 70. 17 70
Cleveland. — Mahoning — Poland, 48; Youngtown
1st, 27 38 ; New Lisbon sab-sch., 18 60 ; New Lisbon,
18; Liberty, 3 50. St. Clairsville — York, 6. Steuben-
ville— Harlem, Mrs. M. Van Horn, 500; Annapolis,
Mr. John Gault, 25; Feed Spring sab-sch., 6; Gross
Creek, 5. 657 48
Columbus. — Marion — Cliesterville sab-sch., 5 65;
Radnor, 3. Wooster — Dalton, 28; Congress, 11, sab-
sch., 9 (20) ; Chester, 11, sab-sch., 8 (19) ; Holmesville,
6 32; Wayne, 5; Mt. Eaton, 1. 87 97
Erie. — Butler — Plain Grove, 50 ; Scrub Grass sab-
sch., sp., 25. Clarion — Concord , W. F. M. Society, 32.
107 00
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 30 60. Geneva —
Geneva 1st, 24 56. Steuben — Corning, 23 21 ; Howard,
10. 88 37
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — R. and R., 15 37; Silver
Springs, 12. Huntingdon — East Kishacoquillas, 80;
Curwensville, 40; Perrysville, 31 70; Beulah, 8, sab-
sch., 15 (23). Northumberland — Mooresburg L. M.
Society, 17. Wellsboro' — Wellsboro’, 14 80, sab-sch.,
4 (18 80). 237 87
Illinois Central. — Bloomington — Chenoa, 3, sab-
sch,, 3 (6); Lexington sab-sch., 5. Peoria — Prospect,
38 92. Schutjler — Huntsville Centre Grove sab-sch.,
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8 45; Perry, 3; Fairmount, 2. Springfield — Virginia,
5. 68 37
Illinois North.— Chicago — Chicago 3d, 9 30; 4th,
781 84 ; Maywood. 5 ; Lake Forest 1st, 208 15. Rock
River — Perryton, 5; Princeton, 2 30; Fulton. 3, sab-
sch., 2 (5) ; Rock Island Central sab-sch., 2 85.
1019 44
Illinois South. — Alton — Edwardsville, 3; Vinden,
9 36; Carrolton, 9 30. Cairo — Bridgeport, 1; Cairo
sab-sch., sp., 4 32 : Anna sab-sch., 2 75. 29 73
Indiana North. — Fort Wayne — Fort Wayne 1st
sab-sch., 50. Logansport — Monon, 5 50. Muncie —
Wabash, 18 50. 74 00
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Indianapolis 7th,
25. Vincennes — Sullivan sab-sch., 1 53. 26 53
Iowa North. — Dubuque — Independence, 7 93.
7 93
Iowa South. — Council Bluffs — Corning 1st, 20 67.
Iowa City — Summit sab-sch. [ 4; Montezuma, 10.
34 67
Kansas. — Highland — Atchison, 15. Neosho — Gar-
nett, 5 ; Cedar Creek, 1 50. 21 50
Kentucky. — Louisville — Louisville Broadway Tab-
ernacle, 9 25. 9 25
Long Island. — Brooklyn — S. Third St., Williams-
burg, 32 77, sab-sch.. 175 (207 77) ; Edge water 1st,
9 ; Brooklyn 1st, 20 21. Long Island — East Hampton
1st, 69 50 ; West Hampton sab-sch., 5 ; Quoque sab-
sch., 6, sp. Nassau — Islip, 2. 319 48
Michigan. — Detroit — Ann Arbor, 8 16. Kalamazoo
— Richland, Josiah Buell, 10; Rev. J. D. McCord. 1.
19 16
Minnesota. — Mankato — St. Peter. Union, 11 70.
St. Paul — St. Paul Central, 5 40; Rice’s Point, 5.
Winona — Taopi, 1 ; Le Roy, 1. 24 10
Missouri. — Platte — Mound City, 9; Craig, 3 50.
St. Louis — St. Louis, Glasgow Ave., 6 26, sab-sch.,
4 09 (10 35); Fredericktown, 1 35; Lafayette Park,
28 25. 52 45
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Elizabeth 2d, 29 99;
Roselle, 43 60, sab-sch., 25 36 (68 96). Jersey City —
Rutherford Park 1st, 15 37 ; Jersey City 1st sab-sch.,
27 50. Monmouth — Matawan 1st, 26 02 ; Farming-
dale, 25 ; Manchester, monthly con., 3. Morris and
Orange — New Vernon, 6; Flanders 5; South Orange,
62 28; Orange Central, 300; German 2d, 30 56; col’d
sab-sch., Madison, 22 50; Morristown 1st, children's
miss’y society, 150; Mendham 2d, 10; East Orange
1st, 18 50. Newark — Bloomfield 1st, 376 04 ; Newark
2d, 49 42; South Park, 33 35. Newton — Belvidere
1st, 29 92. West Jersey — Brainard, 1 11; Hammon-
ton, 5; Cedarville 1st, 34 26. _ 1337 78
New York. — Hudson — Centreville Rome sab-sch.,
1; Goshen, 29 85; Middletown 2d (sp., 35), 95 46;
Goodwill, 18 50; Ridgebury, 2; Scotchtown, 10 40.
New York — New York 4th Ave., 13 21; Washington
Heights, 12: 1st (sp., 20), 3020; University Place,
add’l, 25. North River — Cornwall, 7 43; Newburgh
Calvary 12 62. Westchester — Mahopac Falls, a lady,
2 50 ; Rye sab-sch., 12. 3261 97
Philadelphia. — Chester — Media, 6; Chester 3d,
102 56; Fairview, 15; East Whiteland, 12. Lacka-
wanna — Terrytown, 4 ; Nanticoke, 18 84, sab-sch.,
11 16 (30) Lehigh — Summit Hill, 9 26; sab-sch.,
4 10; Jamestown sab-sch., 1 05. Philadelphia — Phila-
delphia 1st, 36 44; 4th, 10. Philadelphia Central —
Columbia Ave., 11 25; Cohocksink sab-sch., 14 10.
Philadelphia North — Germantown 2d, 143 44. West-
minster— York, 487 94. 887 14
Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh — East Liberty, 120; Pitts-
burgh 2d, 55 65 ; Shady Side, 51 55. Redstone —
Uniontown (add’l, 3), 101 55. 328 75
Texas. — Austin — Brownwood, 4. 4 00
Toledo. — Bellefontaine — Bellefoataine 1st, 12 22.
Huron — Tiffin 1st, 5. 17 22
Western New York. — Buffalo — Buffalo Central,
sp., 7 50. Rochester — Rochester Central, 197 30;
Brick, 100 ; Ossian, 2 42 ; Lima, 8 35. 383 07
Wisconsin. — Chippewa — Neillsville sab-sch., Mrs.
Hendren’s class, 2 50; Emma Hendren, 2 50. Mil-
waukee — Greenwood. 2 50. Winnebago — Neenah
Welch sab-sch., 8. Wisconsin River — Platteville, Ger-
man, 2 25. 17 75
Woman’s Board of Missions Southwest 66 65
Woman’s Board of Foreign Missions, Albany
Branch 43 07
Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society, Phila-
delphia 1117 16
Ladies’ Board of Missions, New York 2230 46
$3,457 34
Total amount received from Churches in
June, 1880 $12,839 73
legacies.
Estate of Wm. Sloane, dec’d, New York 30,000 00
Lapsley Estate 3,400 90
Bequest of Mr. Gregg, dec’d, Monmouth,
Ills 500 00
Legacy of Wm. Reed, dec’d, Rock Spring, O., 500 00
Champion Estate 548 74
Estate of Mrs. M. A. Wilson, dec’d, Shelby-
ville, Ky 500 00
Estate of S. S. Dobbins, dec’d, Danville. Ills., 476 66
Estate of Mary Mason, dec’d, Salem Town-
ship, Pa 780 63
Legacy of W. L. Powers, dec’d, McLean Co.,
Ills 189 50
Estate of Mary Gordon, dec’d, Pa 3 00
$35,898 55
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. W. Conkhite, Sandy Hill. N. Y., 10;
Mrs. Brown, N. Y., 25; D. O. Calkins, 10;
W. G. Hays, Leadville, Colo., 228 50; Mrs.
J. S. Brundage. Tiffin, O., 10; “Father’s
Tobacco Box,” 8 ; a Band of Children in
Conn., 21 ; a Friend, 2 30 ; J. D. McGregor,
Shell Rock, Iowa, 10; Rev. T.Williston, 1 ;
“ D. R. H.,” 3 ; “ a Western Friend of the
Indians,” 1000; M. W. W., 10; Friend,
7 50; , 20,000; H. G. Marquaud, 175 ;
John Sinclair, 500 ; Rev. W. O. Stratton, 1 ;
Friend, 3 ; W. G. Hays, Colo., 2 30 ; San-
ford Halsey, Mich., 10 ; A. F. C. Union, for
Waldenses, 8 ; Mrs. J. R. Bell, Elvaston,
Ills., 7 ; Jacob Leyenberger,Iowa,12; Jas.
B. Robertson, Kingston, N. Y., tobacco
money, 9 40; Hettie O. Mussey, Kansas,
10; J. Laverell, Pa., 6 ; “ A. M.,” Pa., 5 ; J.
K. Graves, Pa., 5 ; T. S. Hubbard, Fredonia,
N. Y., 100; “C.,” Conn., 8; Cash, 50 . 22,258 00
Total amount received in June, 1880 $70,996 28
Receipts from Sabbath-schools in June,
1880 564 21
Receipts on account of Famine Fund, June,
1880 1,150 48
WM. RANKIN, Treasurer ,
23 Centre Street, N. Y.
Letters relating to the Missions, or other opera-
tions of the Board, may be addressed to the Rev.
John C. Lowrie, Rev. David Irving, or Rev. Frank
F. Ellinwood, Secretaries, Mission House, 23 Centre
Street, New York.
Letters relating to the pecuniary affairs of the
Board, or containing remittances of money, may
be sent to William Rankin, Esq., Treasurer — same
address.
Postages on Letters:
To Liberia... 5 cents
Gaboon 5 “
Syria 5 “
Persia, via Russia 5 “
India 5 “
Siam 15 “
China 5 “
'Japan 5 “
Brazil 5 “
Bogota 5 “
Mexico 5 “
Chili 17 “
For each % oz. weight, prepaid.
The Foreign Missionary is published monthly,
at $1 00 a year for each copy. It is sent free, when
desired, to donors of ten dollars and upward, and to
the ministers of our churches.
Address u The Foreign Missionary,” Mission House,
23 Centre Street, N. Y.
1880:]
PUBLICATION.
269
BOARD OF PUBLICATION.
1334 Chestnut Street , Philadelphia , Pa.
Letters relating to donations of books and tracts, the appointment of Missionaries,
and the general interests of the Board, to be addressed to the Rev. William E.
Schenck, D.D., Corresponding Secretary.
Manuscripts, and communications concerning matter offered for publication, whether
for books or periodicals, to the Rev. John W. Dulles, D.D., Editorial Secretary.
Reports of Sabbath-schools and letters relating to Sabbath-school work should be
directed to the Rev. James A. Worden, Secretary of Sabbath-school Work.
Correspondence of Missionaries, remittances of money, and donations, to Mr. S. D.
Powel, Treasurer and Superintendent of Missionary Work.
Orders for Books and Business Correspondence, except from Missionaries, and all
orders for periodicals and payment for the same, to Mr. John A. Black, Business
Superintendent.
IN THE ASSEMBLY,
The Committee to which the last Assembly referred the Report of the
Board of Publication gave to the affairs of the Board a most candid and
attentive consideration. Its report, presented by the chairman, Rfev.
James H. Brookes, D.D., of St. Louis, was warmly supported by mem-
bers of the Assembly from different parts of our great country, each
telling of the need of this work in his own region, and was unanimously
adopted. Not one carping word was uttered. It is to be hoped that this
is a token of the support which the work of the Board is to receive at
the hands of the churches during the coming year. Some paragraphs
from the Report wift be found suggestive by the intelligent reader. We
give portions of it :
GRATIFYING PROGRESS.
The forty-second Annual Report of the Board exhibits a thoroughly
sound financial condition, and gratifying progress in all departments of
the work. Not a dollar of debt remains on the building, and the total
receipts of the year, including the balance of $18,539.49, which was
carried over, amount to $218,898.56, or an increase of $20,835.74 on
the amount of the preceding year. The aggregate of sales has been
$151,577.27, an increase of $5751.38 since the last report was made.
The whole number of missionaries in the field has been sixty-five, and
these have labored diligently, as the report shows, in thirty-four Synods
and seventy- two Presbyteries, selling 73,979 volumes, giving 29,332
volumes and 6,242,710 pages of tracts, while they have visited for
prayer and religious conversation nearly 74,000 families.
The periodicals issued by the Board have kept pace with this general
and happy advance. “The Westminster Teacher,” intended specially
fot the officers and teachers of our Sabbath-schools; “ The Westminster
Lesson Leaf,” designed for the younger classes of scholars; “ The
Westminster Quarterly,” supplying the place between the Question-Book
and Lesson Leaf; “The Sabbath-School Visitor,” unsurpassed in the
270 PUBLICATION. [August,
beauty of its appearance and in the tone of its teachings ; u The Sun-
beam,” that is well named, for the brightness it brings to the little ones
who are permitted to use it, — have all gained in circulation during the
year now closing.
ENLARGED EDITORIAL LABOR.
These facts sufficiently attest the fidelity of the brethren who compose
the Board, and the conclusion which their actions compel is confirmed by
the “ attendance roll” that has been placed in the hands of your com-
mittee. Most of them, as ascertained from this, have been present at
nearly every meeting held during the past twelve months. In the re-
view of their counsels and plans we find much to commend and nothing
to condemn. It is obvious, however, that the increase which calls forth
our gratitude to God has brought with it large increase of labor for the
editor of our periodicals, and as this labor is becoming heavy for him to
bear alone, your committee recommend that the Board be instructed to
provide a suitable assistant to share with him the duties he has so well
discharged and the responsibilities he has so faithfully met.
THE SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK.
Nothing has given your committee greater pleasure than the evidence
received from every quarter of deepened and widened interest in the
Sabbath-school Department of the Board. Under the earnest and effi-
cient management of Rev. James A. Worden, a fresh and we trust a per-
manent impulse has been imparted to this important arm of the service
in the work of our Church, and it is a merited expression of approval
to say of him, “Not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the
Lord.” Your committee recommend that he be appointed by the Gen-
eral Assembly Secretary of the Sabbath-school work of the Board, and
that his salary be derived from the same sources as that of the other
secretaries.
But much remains to be done in this most important opening for sus-
tained Christian effort. Hundreds of thousands of the children and
youth of the land are still to be reached by the Gospel of our Lord
Jesus Christ, or to grow up in ignorance, and infidelity, and vice — a
curse to themselves and to the world. Your committee therefore re-
spectfully recommend —
That all of our Synods and Presbyteries be requested to assign one
day, or at least a portion of one day, at each regular session, for the
prayerful consideration of the Sabbath-school work within their respec-
tive bounds, and securing as far as possible the presence and assistance
of practical Sabbath-school teachers, who know how to handle the Word
of God.
Our Church sessions throughout the country are urged to manifest an
abiding concern for the Sabbath-schools under their care, and a watch-
ful supervision of the instruction received by the children over whom
the Holy Ghost has made them overseers, to feed the lambs. Hence
they are besought to supply their schools with books and periodicals from
our own Board of Publication.
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ITS MISSION WORK.
Special attention is called to the necessity of giving immediate and
generous help to the missionary department of the work. During the
past five years our missionaries have organized 474 Sabbath-schools in
places previously unoccupied, into which have been gathered more than
1500 neglected children ; and this shows what may be accomplished with
the blessing of God, if our people can be made to understand that they
are come to the kingdom for such a time as this. The Report of the
Board shows that 2033 of our Churches, or 215 more than last year, have
contributed to the fund ; but your committee express the hope that twice
two thousand will be found the ensuing year, glad to aid with open hands
in sending the living missionary with the living Word of God to the des-
titute portions of the land.
IMPRESSIONS AND DESIRES.
In the consideration of the work to which their attention has been
called, your committee have been profoundly impressed with its unspeak-
able value in its direct relation to the progress of our Church, to the
salvation of souls, and to the hastening of Christ’s kingdom. They are
earnest in their desire to see greatly increased interest and activity man-
ifested in the Board of Publication, which is second to none in import-
ance ; they are sure that the General Assembly will give emphatic ex-
pression to the same desire ; and it is their prayer that all of our people
throughout the land will awaken to the duty and the privilege of
extending to the cause a liberal and united support, the precursor and
the pledge of enlarged usefulness to the glory of our exalted Lord.
HOW TO ORDER BOOKS FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL LIBRARIES.
Send to John A. Black, Business Superintendent, 1334 Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, a catalogue of books now in your library, with a
letter stating what classes of books are wanted, whether they should be
large or small, the amount of money you have to expend, and how the
box or package should be addressed. Such orders will be filled from a
selected stock equal to any in the country, and any so sent may be re-
turned to the Board if found to be unsuitable.
CASH RECEIPTS FOR THE MISSIONARY WORK OF THE BOARD OF PUBLICA-
TION, JUNE, 1880.
Synods in small capitals— Presbyteries in italics — Churches in Roman.
Albany. — Albany — Schenectady 1st, 28 80; Rev. C.
S. Sherman, Nassau, N. Y., Champlain — Platts-
burg, 19 80. Troy — Stillwater 1st, 11 00. 62 60
Atlantic. — Yadkin — Friendship, 5 00
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Baltimore Broadway,
5 ; Taney Town, 25. New Castle — Dover, 25 ; Green
Hill, 6. 61 00
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 59 cts. ; Waverly, 10; Windsor, 2. St. Law-
rence— Morristown, 3 50; Sackett’s' Harbor, 8 84.
Utica— Clay vi lie, 3; Holland Patent, 5; Martins-
burg, 1 25 ; Turin, 2 75 ; Utica 1st, 30 26. 67 19
China. — Shanghai — Soochow, 5 00
Cincinnati. — Chillicothe — Greenland, 2 17 ; South
Salem, 9; Union, 4 13. Cincinnati — Glendale, 22 01;
Lebanon, 12 85 ; Loveland, 5 67 ; Reading and Lock-
land. 6; Sbaronville, 5 79. Dayton— Clifton, 31 05;
Dayton 1st, 15 26; Franklin, 15; Monroe, 3 55; New
Jersey, 5 10; Somerville, 3 60; Troy, 14 88. Ports-
mouth— Decatur, 4 50 ; Portsmouth 1st, 18 25 ; Ports-
mouth 2d, 18 65; Russellville, 2 77. 200 23
Cleveland. — Cleveland — Chester, 5 ; Cleveland
1st ch. sab-sch., 25. Mahoning — Brookfield, 3; Ells-
worth, 16; Hanover, 2 50; Vienna, 3; Youngstown
1st, 19 85. St. Clairsville — Mt. Pleasant, 9 46; Rock
Hill, 3 80; Short Creek, 6; York, 2. Steubenville —
Annapolis ch., from Mr. John Gault, Sr., 10; East
Liverpool, 7 69 ; East Springfield, 8 ; Two Ridges,
12; Uhrichsville, 10. 143 30
PUBLIC A TION. [August,
Color abo. — Colorado — Denver 1st (17th Street),
16 50 ; Denver Central, 42. 58 50
Columbia. — Oregon — Portland, 40 45
Columbus. — Athens — Middleport, 4; Nelsonville,
2 25; New England, 1 75. Columbus — Columbus
Hoge, 5 14; Dublin, 5 60; Worthington, 5. Marion —
Marysville, 2 50 ; Mt. Gilead, 7 45. Wooster — Lexing-
ton, 4 ; Perrysville, 5 15 ; Savannah, 12. Zanesville —
Clark, 4 4U; Concord 4; Duncan’s Palls, 3 25; Zanes-
ville 1st, 5 59 • 72 08
Erie. — Allegheny — Allegheny North, 39 26; Alle-
gheny Providence, 9 27 ; Bethel, 2 ; Hiland, 4 42 ;
Rochester, 2 ; Tarentum, 5. Butler — Clintonville, 10 ;
New Salem, 4; Scrub Grass, 16. Clarion — Perryville,
5 ; Pisgah, 5 75 ; Richlaud, 3. Erie — Fairfield, 60 cts. ;
Harbor Creek, 3. Kittanning — Apollo, 5 ; Elder’s
Ridge, 2; Elderton, 12 55; Gigal, 3; Rockbridge, 2 ;
Slate Lick, 10 46 ; West Lebanon, 10 ; Worthington,
5 20. Shenango — Clarksville, 9 35 ; Hermon, 6 ; Lees-
burg, 7 33; New Castle 2d, 5; Newport, 5; Rich Hill,
10 ; Slippery Rock, 7. 209 19
Geneva. — Cayuga — Sennett, 2 50. Chemung — El-
mira ist, 3 73; Hector, 3 67; Mecklenburg, 4 50.
Steuben — Corning, 2 04 ; Painted Post, 5. 21 44
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — Chambersburg Central,
10 ; Duncannon, 1 ; Green Hill, 6 50 ; Petersburg, 3 55 ;
Wells Valley, 5 06 ; “ R. & R.,” 1 93. Huntingdon —
Alexandria, 22; Altoona 1st, 30 71; Beulah, 3; Hunt-
ington, 29 70; Little Valley, 4; Logan’s Valley, 8;
Cedar Spring ch., at Lost Creek, 8 5 8 ; Lower Tusca-
rora, 18 55; Newton Hamilton, 5 35; Perrysville, 4;
West Kishacoquillas, 20. Northumberland — Blooms-
burg 1st, 25 49; Lycoming ch. sab-sch., 12; New
Columbia, 2. Wellsboro ’ — YVellsboro’, 1 87. 223 29
Illinois Central. — Bloomington — Paxton, 3. Peoria
— French Grove, 4; Green Valley, 3; John Knox, 6.
Schuyler — Bardolph, 3; New Salem, 7; Wythe, 3 25.
29 25
Illinois North. — Chicago — Peotone, 7. Freeport
— Elizabeth, 2 ; Hanover, 3; Linn and Hebron, 4;
Middle Creek, 7 50; Rockford Westminster, 20 98.
Ottawa— Aurora, 6 15; Earlville, 4; Oswego, 2 70.
Rock River — Fulton, 1. 58 33
Illinois South. — Alton — Carrolton, 1 17 ; Moro, 4 ;
Sparta, 8; Virden, 1 19. Cairo — Anna, 5; Cairo, 4;
Centralia, 4 90; Cobden, 6 50; Dubois, 1; Equality,
1; Fairfield, 1; Golconda, 2 50; Harrisburg, 1;
Richlaud, 4 43; Sumner, 1 30; Wabash, 1 85. 48 84
Indiana North. — Port Wayne — Elkhart ch. & sab-
sch., 12 75 ; Fort Wayne 1st, 37 07 ; La Grange, 7 ;
Lima, 3 11. Logansport — Bethlehem, 2 75 ; Concord,
2 50; Lake Prairie, 5; Michigan City, 8 65; West
Union, 2 75. Muncie — Hartford City, 2; Wabash,
2 34. 85 92
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Franklin, 7 06 ;
Hopeweil, 16; ludianapohs 7th, 2 71; Indianapolis
11th ch. sab-sch., 2: Southport, 2 50. New Albany
— Hanover, 6 79; New Albany 1st, 45 50. Vincennes
— Evansville Grace, 12 10; Graysville, 6 50. Waite
Water — Aurora, 1 80; Greensburg, 11 05. 114 01
Iowa North. — Cedar Hapids — Mount Vernon, 5 50;
Scotch Grove, 2. Fort Dodge — Grand Junction, 3.
Waterloo — Albion, 4 15 ; Nevada, 5. 19 65
Iowa South !— Council Bluffs — Corning, 1 55. Des
Moines — Adel, 7 70: Colfax, 3 25; Dexter, 5; Knox-
ville, 3 ; Waukee, 2 50. Iowa — Kirkville, 2 59. Iowa
City — Montezuma, 3; Red Oak, 5. 33 59
Kansas. — Emporia — Deer Trail, 50 cts. Highland
— Atchison, 4. Larned — Larned, 4 50. Neosho — La
Cygue, 1. 10 00
Kentucky. — Louisville — Olivet, 6 25 ; Princeton 1st,
3 35. 9 60
long Island.— Brooklyn — Brooklyn South Third
St., 21 33. Long Islund — East Hampton, 20 ; Moriches,
14. 55 33
Michigan. — Detroit — Detroit 1st, 117 34 ; Plymouth
2d, 1 ;*Wyandotte, 6 87. Lansing — Homer, 7. Monroe
— Monroe, 8 ; Reading, 1 47. 141 68
Minnesota. — Mankato — Winnebago City, 5. St.
Paul — Minneapolis Westminster ch. sab-sch., 16 72.
Winona — Fremont, 4 20. 25 29
Missouri. — Osage — Appleton City, 4 25; Butler, 7 ;
Westfield, 1 22. Palmyra — Moberly, 6 35. Platte —
St. Joseph Westminster, 16. St. Louis — Bristol, 133;
Salem, 2 50; St. Louis Lafayette Park ch. sab-sch.,
14 60 ; White Water, 1 33. 54 58
Nebraska. — Nebraska City — Simeon,!. Omaha —
Pleasant Hill, 2 86 ; Schuyler, 3 56. 7 42
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Lamington, 10; Roselle,
3 20. Jersey City — Rutherford Park, 9. Monmouth —
Bordeutown, 3 70; Cream Ridge, 10; Euglishtown,
4 50; Jacksonville, 3 ; Plumstead, 5 ; Providence, 4 68.
Morris <£ Orange — East Orange, 2 33 ; Mendham 2d,
6 25; Mt. Freedom, 4. Newark — Newark 1st, 49 80;
Newark 2d, 12; Newark Wickliffe, 7. New Bruns-
wick— Kingston, 10 81 ; Lambertville, 18 ; Trenton 1st,
132. Newton — Sparta, 3 25. West Jersey — Camden
1st, 23 32 ; Camden 2d, 6 ; Cedarville 1st, 12 74 ; Green-
wich, 19 40. 359 98
New York. — Boston — Newburyport 1st, 26 61. Hud-
son— Goodwill, 2 33 ; Middletown 2d, 1 50; Ridgebury,
12 ; Scotchtown, 1 31 ; White Lake, 2 50. North River
— Amenia South, 10; Pleasant Plains, 3 18. West-
chester—GWend, 11 25; Poundridge, 10; South East
Centre, 5 ; South Salem, 15 ; Thompsonville, 16 72.
105 52
Pacific. — Benicia — Napa, 10 35. Sacramento — Chico,
8 30. 18 65
Philadelphia. — Chester — Coatesville, 13 ; Doe Run
ch., 4, and Doe Run Valley sab-sch., 2 = 6; Upper
Octorara, 19 29. Lackawanna — Columbia (*! Roads,
2; Providence, 3; Susquehanna Depot, 5; Sylvania, 2.
Lehigh — Lower Mount Bethel, 2 50; Summit Hill
ch., 1 17, sab-sch., 51 cts., and Jamestown sab-sch.,
13 cts. = 1 81. Philadelphia^— Philadelphia, 1st ch.,
addl., 90 64; Philadelphia 10th ch. (sab-sch., 8 51, S.
B. M. 50), 58 51. Philadelphia Central — Philadelphia,
Olivet, 21; Philadelphia, Trinity, 40. Philadelphia
North — Germantown 1st, 170; Pottstown, 17. West-
minster— Bellevue, 10 ; Cedar Grove, 3 ; Leacock, 5 61 ;
Little Britain, 6 ; Pequea, 14. 490 36
Pittsburgh. — Blair sville — Armagh, 3 69; Cross
Roads, 6; Greensburg ch. sab-sch., 34 62; Johnstown,
18 ; Manor, 1 ; New Alexandria (sab sch., 4 45), 39 54;
New Salem, 9; Unity, 19. Pittsburgh — Bloomfield,
3 10 ; Canonsburg, 16 30 ; Chartiers, 12 60 ; East Lib-
erty ch. (sab-sch., 45 97), 58 97 ; Hopewell, 1 50 ; Knox-
ville, 1; Mount Pisgah, 6; Mount Washington, 12;
Pittsburgh 2d, 7 41; Pittsburgh, Bellefield, 30; Pitts-
burgh, Shady Side, 10 32; Raccoon, 41 21; Sharon,
11 77 ; Sw’issvale, 5 ; West Elizabeth, 29. Redstone —
Dunlap’s Creek, 18 64 ; Greensboro’, 1 ; Laurel Hill,
20; New Providence, 5; Pleasant Unity, 7 05; Round
Hill, 23. Washington — Bethlehem, 129; Claysville,
20; Forks of Wheeling, 23 ; Frankfort, 3 ; Hookstown,
5 25; Moundsville, 3 34; Wellsburg, 6 80; Wheeling
1st, 23 12. 537 52
Tennessee. — Kingston — Baker’s Creek, 1 ; Bethel,
3 ; Cloyd’s Creek, 3 06; Unitia, 4. Union — Hopewell,
3 33; Spring.Place, 2 50; Westminster, 2 04. 11 93
Toledo. — Belief ontaine — Bellefontaine, 1 54; Ur-
bana, 14 10. Huron — Fostoria, 10 51. Maumee —
Bryan, 16 96. 43 11
Western New York. — Buffalo — East Aurora, 10;
Panama, 1 04 ; Silver Creek, 10 ; Springville, 5. Gene-
see— Castile, 5 43; W'arsaw, 26; Wyoming, 10 51.
Niagara — Porter, 8. Rochester — Brockport, 12 40;
Lima, 1 05; Mount Morris, 5 60; Rochester Central,
9 18 ; Victor, 9 30. 113 51
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Marquette, 32 40. Mil-
waukee— Beloit 1st, 19 ; Ottawa, 31 cts. ; Pine Grove,
6; Stone Bank, 3 50. Winnebago — Oshkosh, 4 33.
Wiscmsin River — Madison, 16 31 ; Pardeeville, 2 01.
83 86
Receipts from Churches $3634 73
legacies.
Legacy, additional, of Elisha Taylor, de-
ceased, late of Cleveland, O., 166 50 ; Legacy
of James M. Preston, deceased, late of Boone
Co., Ky., 400. 566 50
MISCELLANEOUS.
“Petten T.,” 3; A church and sab-sch. in
Dalton, Ga., 1 50; A man and wife, interest
™ a imnH an- “It O R ” 5 ! “C ’’ Conn-
on a bond, 40 ; rs. u. tv., oj aa»uu.,
1; “ Cash,” 4 88 ; Interest, 3(J. 85 38
Total receipts in June $4286 61
S. D. POWEL, Treasurer.
1880.]
CHURCH ERECTION.
9 - Q
L i 6
BOARD OF CHURCH ERECTION.
We ask the attention of all our churches to the earnest request of
the last General Assembly, “ that a steadfast effort be made to provide
for the present and future needs of this Board, by instructing all our
pastors to faithfully present the cause of Church Erection to their
people and take up a contribution at least once a year for its treasury.
Also that an effort be made to raise $150,000 during the current year.”
More than this amount was asked for last year, and no less than this
will suffice to meet the demands that will be made upon our treasury
this year. To reach this amount, not only a .more general but much
larger contribution is required. The widow's mite will be thankfully
received from the widow , but not from the large and wealthy churches ,
many of whom have in their infancy been aided by this Board. Of our
receipts last year only $41,000 came as church contributions. The rest
was made up of legacies, individual gifts, proceeds of land and old church
buildings, &c. These abnormal supplies cannot be depended upon; they
may fail us any day, and what then will the churches do that are de-
pending upon our aid to get a shelter over their heads before winter
comes ? One of the noblest givers this Board ever had has been called
to his home in the Upper Sanctuary. His generous gifts have gladdened
the hearts of many thousands of God’s poor, and most sadly shall we
miss him in the years to come. To supply his place will require the
contributions of more than five hundred of our average churches. To
make up this deficit the church collections for Church Erection must be
more than doubled. Brethren, this is to us a momentous matter. Who
will respond ?
Since the commencement of the current year (less than two months)
we have received 65 applications for aid to the amount of $28,500. Our
gross receipts during the same two months were $7962. This shows the
utter inability of the Board to grant in full the large sums asked of
them. Either the churches are giving by far too little or asking too
much of the Board. But asking , with all the indorsements of Presby-
teries and Synods and outside influences, does not enable the Board to
meet the demand. What would be much more effective would be for
the Presbyteries to enjoin their delinquent churches to make their con-
tributions regularly to the Board, and those that do give minutely to
quadruple the amount. When this is faithfully done, there will be
ample means with which to meet every reasonable call made upon our
treasury.
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CHURCH ERECTION .
[August,
RECEIPTS FOR CHURCH ERECTION IN MAY AND JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Albany — Schenectady 1st. 26 48.
Atlantic. — Catawba — Dutchman’s Creek, 1 ; Wood-
land, 1. East Florida — Jacksonville 1st, 1.
Baltimore. — Baltimore — Ashland, 8; Baltimore
Brown Mein’l, 31' 05 ; Churehville, 7 50. New Castle
— Rock, 5 ; Zion, 10. Washington City — Washington
1st, sp., 78; Washington 4th, of which 80 sp., 96 50;
Washington Metropolitan, for miss’y soc’y, sp., 52;
Washington N. Y. Ave., sp., 160.
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 1 18; Preble, 4 64. Otsego — Worcester, 5.
Utica — Utica Bethany, 11 25
Cincinnati. — Chillicotlie— North Fork, 7 39. Cin-
cinnati— Cincinnati 2d, 81 22 ; Cincinnati 3d, 15.
Dayton — Bath, 1.
Cleveland.— Cleveland— Ashtabula, 20; Rome, 93
cts. St. Clairsville — Kirkwood, 8 92; Martinsville, 3;
York, 4. Steubenville — Carrolton, 10 88.
Colorado. — Colorado— Golden, 21 21. Montana —
Hamilto.n, 2. Utah — Salt Lake City 1st, 22.
Columbia.; — Idaho — Lewistown, 5 ; Union, 5. Puget
Sound — Puyallup, 1 90 ; Seattle, 1.
Columbus. — Marion — Iberia, 4; York, 2 50. Zanes-
ville— Concord, 4; Norwich, 5 50; Zanesville 1st, 8 41.
Erie. — Allegheny — Bakerstown,7 50; Fairmount, 3.
Butler — Clintonville, 2; Fairview, 5: Harrisville, 1;
New Salem, 3; Portersville, 6. Clarion — Emlenton,
for Woman’s Miss’y Soc’y, 5 ; Pisgah, 5. Erie — Cam-
bridge, 8 ; Jamestown 1st, 4 42. Kittanning — Crook-
ed Creek, 2 01 ; Elder’s Ridge, 2; Gilgal, 3; Mechan-
icsburg, 1; Rockbridge, 2; Rural Valley Ch. and
sab-sch., 7. Shenango — Hermon, 6 ; Newport, 6; Slip-
pery Rock, 12 ; Transfer, 2.
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 12 95. Geneva —
Geneva 1st, 40 03. Steuben — Canisteo, 12 ; Corning,
4 06.
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — Chambersburg Central, 15 ;
Duncannon, sab-sch., 1 25; Green Hill, 6 50; Harris-
burg Market Sq., sp., 91 48: Wells Valley, 5 07.
Huntingdon — Beulah, 5; Hublersburgh, 2 50; Lick
Run, 3; Perrysville, 7 93. Wellsboro' — Wellsboro’
1st, 3 70.
Illinois Central. — Peoria — Mansfieldlst, 4. Schuy-
ler— Carthage, 6 ; Hersman. 2 ; Kirkwood, 10. Spring-
field — North Sangamon, sab-sch., 10; Petersburgh,
16 75; Pennsylvania, 15 20.
Illinois North. — Rock River — Fulton, 1 50.
Illinois South.— Alton — Carrolton, 2 32; Virden,
2 34. Cairo — Equality, 2 ; Harrisburg, 2 ; Mattoon,
sab-sch., sp., 25; Morrisonville, 3 50; Prairie Bird,
8 ; Tower Hill, 5.
Indiana North. — Crawfordsville — Kerklin, 2 ; Lex-
ington, 9 50 ; Prairie Centre, 3 48 ; Rossville, 3 ; Sugar
Creek, 3 53. Logansport — La Porte, 46 05. Muncie —
Union City, 5; Wabash, 4 62.
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Columbus, 1 50;
Greenwood, 4; Indianapolis 7th, 2 74; Putnamville,
165. Vincennes — Petersburg, 4 60; Royal Oak. 4 40.
Iowa North. — Cedar Rapids— Center Junction 1st,
6; Cedar Rapids 1st, 57 96. Dubuque — Bethel, 5;
Epworth, 1; Farley, 2; Peosta, 1.
Iowa South. — Council Bluffs — Clarinda, for Wo-
man’s Miss’y Soc’y, sp., 25; Pilot Grove, 1 20. Des
Moines — Liicas, 1; Olivet, 2 50; Woodburn, 61 cts.
Iowa — Bloomfield, 2 90; Winfield, 5. Iowa City —
Montezuma, 7.
Kansas. — Emporia — Rock Creek, 1 75 ; Walnut
Valley, 5. Highland — Atchison, 4 ; Holton 1st, 8 75.
Solomon — Beloit, 20. Topeka — Lawrence, 21 50.
Kentucky. — Louisville — Louisville Broadway Tab-
ernacle, 26 09 ; Plum Creek, 2 ; Princeton 1st, 5.
Long Island. — Long Island — Setauket, 26.
Michigan. — Detroit — Dearborn, 1 ; Detroit Jefferson
Ave., 81 55 ; East Nankin, 1. Lansing — Windsor, 2 06.
Saginaw — Harrisville 1st, 5.
Minnesota. — Mankato — Amboy, 5. Red River— '•
Pembina 1st, 7 90; Western, 2 92. St. Paul — Red
Wing, 5 77 ; Rice’s Point, 2.
Missouri. — Osage — Ebenezer, 6; Greenwood, 2;
Pleasant Hill, 2 62. Ozark — Shiloh, from Ladies’
Miss’y Soc’y, 4. Palmyra — Brookfield, 6; Moberly
1st, 6 75. Platte — Barnard, 1 50; Graham, 1 50;
King City, 4; Savannah, 2; Union, 8. St. Louis —
Fredericktown, 1 50; Ferguson, 5; Laketon, 3.
Nebraska. — Omaha — Bellevue, 9 ; Waterloo, 5.
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Cranford 1st, 7 50; Eliza-
beth 1st, 89 51 ; Roselle, 6 34. Jersey City— Passaic,
5; Tenafly, 1 94. Monmouth — Farmingdale, sp., 20;
Matawan 1st, 10 60; Whiting. 2. Morris and Orange
— East Orange 1st, 72 07. Newark — Newark 2d, 20 ;
Newark South Park, 45 52. New Brunswick — Tren-
ton Prospect St., 29 20. Newton— North Hardiston,
5 ; Yellow Frame, 2 18.
New York. — Hudson — Goodwill, 4 63; Middletown
2d, 2 98 ; Ridgebury, 30 cts. ; Scotcbtown, 2 60. New
York — New York Madison Sq., add'l, 250; New York
Rutgers, 590. North River — Amenia South, 15 68;
Poughkeepsie, 18 22. Westchester — Hartford 1st, 25 ;
Poundridge, 10.
Pacific. — San Francisco— San Francisco Calvary,
115.
Philadelphia. — Chester — Charlestown, 1 67 ; Great
Valley, 11 ; Phoenixville, 2. Lackawanna — Archibald,
1 ; Scranton 2d, sp., 5. Lehigh — Jamestown, sab-sch.,
26 cts. ; Summit Hill Ch.. 2 31 ; Summit Hill sab-sch.,
1 03. Philadelphia — Philadelphia Walnut St., 286 73 ;
Philadelphia W. Spruce St., 215 91. Philadelphia
Central— Philadelphia Kenderton, 9 ; Philadelphia
Central, 49 47; Philadelphia Gaston, 5 32; Philadel-
phia Trinity, 2. Philadelphia North — Newtown, sp.,
54 50. Westminster — Monaghan, 3 19.
Pittsburgh. — Blairsville — Blairsville, 48 45; Con-
gruity sab-sch., 2 ; Manor, 4 ; Latrobe, 6. Pittsburgh
— East Liberty 1st, 44; Hazelwood, 5 20; Hebron, 1 ;
Hopewell, 1; Pittsburgh 2d, 16 70; Pittsburgh Shady
Side, 20 61; Swissvale, 5; Westminster, 5. Redstone
—Carmichaels, 15; Connellsville, 30 15; Greensboro’,
2. West Virginia — Kanawha, for Mountaineers Mis-
sion Band, 5 ; Pennsboro’, 5.
Tennessee. — Holston — Reedy Creek, 1.
. Texas. — Austin — Brownwood, 2.
Toledo. — Bellefontaine — BelleYontaine 1st, 6 83;
Marseilles, 4; West Liberty, 90 cts. Huron— Genoa,
2. Lima — Ottawa, 4. Maumee — Madison, 1 ; Perrys-
burg Walnut St., 2.
Western New York. — Buffalo— Buffalo Brecken-
ridge St., for Woman’s Miss’y Soc’y, 20 50 ; Silver
Creek, 10. Niagara — Niagara Falls 1st, 47 37. Roch-
ester— Dansville, 20; Lima, 2 09; Rochester Brick,
105 16; Rochester Central, 32 08; Sparta 2d, 4 75.
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Negaunee, 7 25. Mil-
waukee— Delafield, 1 13 ; Ottawa, 64 cts. Winnebago
— Auburndale, 2 50; Stevens’ Point, 4 90.
miscellaneous.
“Friends” special for Ogden-, Utah. 69;
Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Washington, D. C.,
sp., 20; “C.,” Conn., 4; “ A Friend,” Pa., 3;
Anonymous, 64; Rev. Anson Y. Tuttle, Edin-
burgh, O., 1; Mr. John Gault, Sr., O., 10;
Friends, special, for Logan Ch., Utah, 428 19;
“Cash,” 9 65; R. & R., 3 85; Sale of Law-
renceville Ch., 111., 258 ; On account of sale of
land, 102 75; Interest, 1636 79; Premiums
for reinsurance of churches, 92 88; On ac-
count of Legacy of Parthenia P. Mayfield,
late of Philadelphia, Pa., 877 56; On account
of Taylor Legacy of Cleveland, O., 166 51.
Total receipts for May and June $7962 03
H. R. WILSON, Ja., Treasurer.
Corresponding Secretary , Rev. H. R. Wilson, D.D., 23 Centre Street, New York.
Treasurer , H. R. Wilson, Jr., 23 Centre Street, New York.
1880.]
MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
BOARD OF RELIEF.
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A PLEA FOR THE MINISTRY.
KEY. DR. MUTCHMORE’S ADDRESS AT THE LATE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Jesus Christ has as much money as he ever had since he created the
world. Even that which he hid away in the rocks, as he was laying
the foundations of the earth, is now coming to light ; and the question
of the hour is, How shall his church get its portion ? In our efforts as
an Assembly we are, it seems to me, weakening the impression of need
before the minds of our people. The tendency of Presbyterian methods,
in this respect, is to put our “ fodder ” so high in the ecclesiastical racks
that only camelopards can reach it, and for the saints in need only de-
sire and wonder are left.
We have been going on in this line to-day. We first determined to
enjoin upon our ministers and elders to take care of our sick, disabled,
and superannuated ministers. Then we were scared at our temerity, and
we substituted recommend; but this, in our pusillanimity, was still too
strong, and now it is proposed reverently to suggest; and the next move
will be to take our hats in our hands, saying most abjectly, “ If you
please, will you give a poor minister a penny for the love of Christ?”
Brethren, the church is inefficient from outright ignorance as to their
duty; the church is demoralized by our cowardice. We are afraid to
tell them that it is not only Christian, but human , to care for the weak
and aged, and to bury the dead. This duty in every other relation of
life is enforced by public sentiment. Public sentiment requires even
the street railroad company to take the poor horse that falls dead in the
gears, to strike the fetters of his toil from off his poor body, to lift him
from his hard death-bed, and carry him to his burial. But it appears
to me that we are about to beg the members of our church, in the most
servile fashion, to care for her worn-out ministers — some now failing
in the race of life, from whom the gear of their hard toil has to be
unbuckled, exposing the healed scars and galled spots of their hard
service. Or if in any of them life lingers after their active work is done,
we ask for their support, we are obliged, as Charles II. once said, to
apologize to his impatient courtiers, that he was “ such an unaccountable
while in dying.”
Mr. Moderator, we do not need to introduce feebleness into our mes-
sages from this court of Jesus Christ to our churches, but rather tell
them their duty on this subject so clearly that they cannot be mistaken,
and to repeat it so often that it will engraft itself on their memories.
It was our privilege to know a servant of the Lord in the West who had
a glorious life-work, of which a man of brighter talents might have been
proud. He had a blessed ministry in one place, of seventeen years.
He was about the poorest preacher I ever heard. His people used to
say that, although he took a different text each time, he always preached
the same sermon, but it was a good one — “Man’s lost condition and
need of a Saviour;” always ending with the text: “This is a faithful
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saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the
world to save sinners.” “ It was the same sermon for seventeen years,”
said one of his members, “but it was a mighty good one; and what is
better, its effectiveness was in the fact that he kept on telling it over and
over, until he got thirteen hundred people of this country to believe it.”
So, Mr. Moderator, the subject of Ministerial Relief is a good sermon,
backed by the example of Jesus, by the law of God, enforced by the
apostle in the words, “ The laborer is worthy of his hire,” and the ex-
ample of the infant church who carried Stephen to his burial with great
lamentation.
Sir, we have heard this morning that a fund, accumulated through the
devotion and liberality of the church for those worn out at the end of
life, or, what is worse, broken down at noontide, or for the fatherless and
widowed, would furnish a wrong motive to men entering the ministry.
We are told that they would be led to it in expectation of the pauper
fund at the end. I can only reply that my experience leads me to be-
lieve that no pauper fund at either the beginning or end of the ministry
is an inducement to high-minded men to seek the ministry. I think
they instinctively rebel at it; their manhood shrinks before it as a.
motive ; they tolerate the thought as a dire necessity ; but it is a differ-
ent thing when in the ministry sickness exhausts, or age, with its infir-
mities, cuts them off from their work, that they should have some
mitigation in the gratitude of the church for their hard aud poorly com-
pensated service.
We have heard this morning that fifty years is the dead-line to minis-
terial acceptability, beyond which the most faithful pastors can hardly
expect to go. After they are fifty they need expect no calls. The
choice food of the church under our present dispensation is greens, greens.
In the heart of the curse it is said, “ Thou shalt eat the herb of the
field,” and we suppose it must be this depraved tendency that still leads
the church to prefer the succulency of youth to the sanctified wisdom of
age. Youth and inexperience in this profession appear to be the staple
commodities of highest ecclesiastical growth and reward. Ministers are
superannuated at fifty, you say, not because they have less resources, for
in every other profession they would be just in their prime, but in the
weakened spiritual and intellectual digestion of the churches. Sir, it is
not hard work and its sacrifices that wear out our ministers. These are
not the frictions and solvents that soften their brains and bring them
into premature decline. But rather it is care — that erosion that wears
away life and eclipses hope. It is not for themselves they care so much
when hopeless specks settle on the disks of their lives at noonday, but
what shall become of those helpless ones, left in the wrecks of their
families, behind them.
W^hen a young minister begins his work there is no peace until he is
married. He is told that at best he is only a bobbing hemisphere, that
he is not half a man, and he ought to have a wife to help him, and every
mistake he makes is traced to his celibacy. He is not then to be blamed
in believing all this semi-pious effusion. And when he marries, to please
the church, a family will spring up around him, and care and fear for
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his future and theirs come with them. And these are the things that
make it hard to live, for life is a prolonged fear on their account, and
death is a martyrdom. Nay, it is more ; a man can go to the stake with
the remnant of his life if God calls. But to look back, as one goes on
the way, upon widowed helplessness and orphans unprovided for in their
infancy, would break the strongest hearts. These, sir, are the causes of
the waste and early loss of usefulness and life of our ministers.
I was called once to see one of these toilers dying. He had wrought
hard for the church of which he was pastor, and had used all his own
and wife’s resources, and now on the last day of life he could not look
on enough of this world’s goods to bury him. He was in great physical
distress; but clung to life for some unaccountable reason. Something
more than physical pain troubled him. u Why are you so anxious ?”
said a friend. “ Oh,” said he, “ for Mary and the children.” And when
one promised to take care of them, the mind o'f the dying man was at
rest, and in ten minutes after his soul had found eternal peace, “where
the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” A man
can endure martyrdom as to himself ; but it is the prospect of others’
sufferings that makes life so hard. We fear for our families.
RECEIPTS FOR BOARD OF RELIEF IN JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Albany — Albany 2d, 122 25; Schenec-
tady 1st, 75 08. Troy — Mt. Ida Memorial, 11 52;
Whitehall 1st, 15.
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
North, 87 cts. Otsego — Oueonto, 13 60. Syracuse —
Amboy, 9; Skaneateles, 18. Utica — -New York Mills,
30.
Cleveland. — Mahoning — Kinsman, 10. St. Clairs-
ville — Short Creek, 6. Steubenville — Annapolis, from
John Gault, Sr., 10 ; Beech Spring, 20.
Columbus. — Zanesville — Concord, 3.
Erie. — Allegheny — Allegheny North, 66 12. Butler
— Middlesex, 5. Shenango — Hermou, 6 03.
Geneva. — Chemung — Elmira 1st, 5 40. Steuben —
Corning, 2 96.
Harrisburg. — Carlisle — “R. and R.,” 2 81. Hunt-
ingdon— Beulah, 4; Curwensville, 5; East Kishaco-
quillas, 20; Perryville, 5 79. Northumberland — New
Columbia, 2. Wellsboro' — Wellsboro’, 2 70.
Illinois North. — Chicago — Lake Forest 1st, 48 69.
Freeport — Rock Run, 2 80. Rock River — Fulton, 2.
Illinois South. — Alton — Carrollton, 1 69; Virden,
1 71.
Indiana North. — Logansport — Valparaiso 1st,
13 35. Muncie — Wabash, 3 38.
Indiana South. — Indianapolis — Indianapolis 7th,
25.
Iowa North. — Cedar Rapids — Blairstown, 7 30.
Iowa South. — Iowa — Pleasant Plain, 1 30 ; Salina,
1. Iowa City — Montezuma, 4.
Kansas. — Highland — Atchison, 4.
Kentucky. — Ebenezer — Ashland, from “ W. C. C.,”
50. Louisville — Louisville Broadway Tabernacle,
23 85.
Long Island. — Brooklyn— Brooklyn South 3d St.,
31 02. Nassau — Newtown 1st, 15.
Michigan. — Detroit— Plymouth 2d, 1.
Minnesota. — St. Paul — Rice’s Point, 1 ; Stillwater
1st, 13 02. Winona — Taopi, 1.
Missouri. — Ozark — Springfield Calvary, 22. Pal-
myra— Moberly, 6 55. St. Louis — Fredericktown,
1 40.
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Basking Ridge, 35 ; Eliz-
abeth 2d, 25 06 ; Elizabeth, Madison Ave., 13 40; Eliz-
abethport, sp., 20 ; Lamington, 52 ; Roselle 1st, 4 62.
Secretary , Rev. George Hale, D.D.,
Treasurer, Rev. Charles Brown,
Jersey City — Englewood, 215 60 ; Jersey City, Clare-
mont, 10. Morris and Orange — East Orange, 3 38';
Whippany, 5. Newark — Newark 2d, 12. New Bruns-
vjick — Pennington, 56 94. Newton — Belvidere 1st,
7 88 ; Hackettstown, from Rev. A. Proudfit, 10. West
Jersey — Brainerd, 60 cts. ; Camden 2d, Alexander
Marcy, M.D., 15 : Hammonton, 3 88.
New York. — Hudson — Goodwill, 3 38 ; Middletowm
2d, 2 18 ; Ridgebury, 56 cts. ; Scotchtown, 1 90. New
York — New York North, 48; New York 1st, 4648 09.
North River — Cold Spring, 4, including 2 from sab-
sch. Westchester — Croton Falls, 12; Yonkers West-
minster, 10.
Philadelphia. — Lehigh — Lower Mt. Bethel, 1;
Summit Hill, 2 44 ; Jamestown sab-sch., 19 cts. Phila-
delphia— Philadelphia 4th, 10.
Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh — East Liberty, 25 ; Pitts-
burgh 2d, 16 70 ; Pittsburgh Shady Side, 20 61.
Toledo. — Bellefontaine — Bellefontaine, 2 23. Lima
— Ottawa, 4. Maumee — Toledo Westminster, 130.
Western New York. — Genesee — Rev. G. S. Corwin,
50 15. Rochester — Lima, 1 53; Mount Morris 1st,
6 25 ; Rochester Brick, 100 ; Rochester Central, 45 82 :
Sparta 1st, 5.
Wisconsin. — Milwaukee — Ottawa, 47 cts. Wisconsin
River — Beaver Dam 1st, 16.
From the Churches $6413 05
miscellaneous.
N. Y., Rochester, from Miss A. Benjamin,
1 ; Indianapolis, from Mrs. II. and daugh-
ter, 5 ; N. Y., Nassau, from Rev. C. S. Sher-
man, 3 ; Ills., Springfield, Mrs. H. W. Mc-
Kee, 2 ; per the “Presbyterian,” from “L.
O. E.,” 1; Interest on Permanent Fund,
180; Interest on Permanent Fund, 150;
IKm “ R ,” 2; Pa., Coudersport, from John
R. Groves, 5; N. Y., Ashland, from Rev.
Pfirmis P Npms 9. SO; from “ C._ Conn..” 1 •
from “ Cash,” 7 04 359 54
Total for June $6772 59
CHAS. BROWN, Treasurer.
Office, 1334 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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FREEDMEN.
[August,
COMMITTEE ON FREEDMEN.
BEAVER POND, V A.
The presence of the Lord has been ever with us during the school
year. Going back to June 4, 1878, when I first came to Amelia county,
I can say that from that time up to now there has been a marked change
in the condition of the people around Albright, among whom I have
labored as a catechist.
First , the intellectual advancement. When I came here I found no
school at all in this part of the country ; now we have a good day-school
and Sabbath-school. Very few could read ; now I have scholars reading,
writing, spelling ; studying arithmetic, both written and mental, geogra-
phy, grammar, history, and natural philosophy. All of which has been
done in the summers of 1878-9, and the six months’ term which has
just ended.
Second , the moral and spiritual advancement. When I first came to
this place the children or young people among whom my lot was cast
thought nothing strange of breaking the Sabbath by hunting, fishing,
playing marbles, and many other sports. It was thought no sin to take
God’s name in vain ; and the first day I taught, the children all went
out to recess, the girls and boys together, and at some distance from the
school-house they all assembled. One of the boys was preacher, yet he
had associate preachers, and he arose, took his would-be text, and began
to preach. After a while I saw the girls commence to fall about and
scream with wild, hideous yells, and the boys from the opposite part of
the congregation ran over to hold these “saints,” who were going into a
trance from the wonderful preaching then going on. After the sermon
they all started down to the pretended mill-pond to baptize. After they
were baptized no one could hold them at all, for, as they termed it, ^ the
Spirit was riding them.”
I sfood with wonder beholding the strange scenes of my new field,
and among the young, to whom we look for the prosperity of our race.
After all was over, I called them in and asked what they called the
action they had been going through. Some answered “ preaching and
baptizing.” I asked again where they got that way of preaching, to
which they responded, “From our parents in the churches.” I asked
several other questions, and then proceeded to show them the sinfulness
from the Bible standpoint of such acts, and the punishment which
awaited all who engaged in any worship without reverence for the God
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of the Bible; then I laid down certain laws concerning the matter, and
from that day to this I have seen nothing of the kind among my schol-
ars.
During the summer of 1878, six or seven young people professed
faith in the Lord Jesus at a revival meeting which was held among us,
the most of whom joined the Albright church. They are still in the
faith, and are helps in their families as lights. In the summer of 1879
ten or twelve were added to the church, all of whom were either in my
day or Sabbath-school. They have also made some little advancements
in regard to the support of the gospel. We sent some money to the
Board of Publication, but it was lost, and we are preparing to send
again. That Board, through the instrumentality of Dr. Craighead of
Howard University, sent us quite a number of Bibles, tracts, primers,
readers, and lesson leaves, which we were greatly needing at the time,
for which we are very anxious to show our grateful thanks ; and before
the summer is gone some of the boys want to send the committee a little
contribution. I do not wish to imply that our needs are all fulfilled, we
need Bibles, catechisms — Shorter and children’s — papers, and religious
books of all kinds. I hope if any can, they will send us something for
our Sabbath-school this summer. It does not matter whether it be
second-hand or not, the school will be glad to receive anything in that
line.
The general deportment of the people is much improved ; both old
and young attend Sabbath-school and church better and are more atten-
tive. Many have stopped going around to hear illiterate men preach,
and as they become enlightened so do they flee the appearance of ig-
norance. The man with whom I board was once a Baptist, and he never
attended Sabbath-school. Now he goes with me every Sabbath, and
when he prays in the morning or at night, he always remembers our
Sabbath and day-schools, our church, all students who are studying for
the ministry, and the heathen. So you see the influence of the work is
not only felt by the young, but is carried to God in prayer by their
parents.
And now, in pursuance of all that I have said, let me beseech you to
continue the good work you have begun here in this part of Christ’s
kingdom. One good rain, and then a long dry season, does not make
much corn ; the rain must be followed up if the seed sown would pro-
duce. The people here are poor, but I think with your help they will
be able after a while to assist themselves. I want to stay here this
summer to keep up my Sabbath-school, which is very large and increas-
ing. The people seem to press after knowledge, and if we would build
up Presbyterianism among the colored people, they must be educated
both intellectually and spiritually.
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FREEDMEN .
[August,
Our field is threatened by other denominations. Shall we quit the
field after we have gone so far ? I say instead of deserting this we
ought to extend our borders, and, if I may be allowed to speak thus, I
can say that already the mouths of the wicked have been stopped by
the works of the righteous.
I had an exhibition and festival at the close of my school, and we
realized about $50 to commence our new house of worship. God is
blessing us abundantly, and we ask your sincere prayers and co-oper-
ation in this all-important work of the Master, for I feel we have done
some good, yet I know that “ the harvest is plenteous, but the laborers
are few,” and that there is much more to be done. I have enrolled 122
scholars this year. Next year there should be two teachers in this, Al-
bright, school.
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RECEIPTS FOR FREEDMEN IN JUNE, 1880.
Albany. — Albany — Schenectady 1st, 19 65.
Central New York. — Binghamton — Binghamton
West, by Orlando N. Benton, 5 ; Binghamton North,
59 cents.
Cincinnati. — Cincinnati — Cincinnati 7th, sab-sch.,
15 20. Portsmouth — Russel vi lie, 2 70.
Cleveland. — Cleveland. — Cleveland 1st, 10. Mahoning
— Y'oungstown 1st, 34 23. St. Clairsville — Beulah, 1.
Steubenville — Bethel, 8 ; Annapolis, by J. Gault, Sr., 10.
Columbus. — Athens — Athens sab-sch., 4 67. Zanes-
ville— Concord, 3 ; Linton, 3 ; Muskingum, 16 15.
Erie. — Butler — Summit, 3; Clintonville 2. Clarion
— Mt. Tabor, 2 ; Mt. Pleasant, 2 ; Mill Creek, 1. Erie—
Tidioute, 10 07. Shenango — Neshannock, 17 30.
Geneva. — Cayuga — Dryden. 7. Chemung— Elmira
1st, 3 73. Steuben — Corning, 2 04.
Harrisburp. — Carlisle — R. & R., 1 93. Huntingdon
— Perrysville, 4 ; Beulah, 4 ; Houtzdale, 2. Northumber-
land—Washington, 21 25. Wellsboro'— Wellsboro’, 1 87.
Illinois Central. — Bloomington— Hey worth, 4 87 ;
Champaign, 9 33. Schuyler — Hersman, 1. Peoria —
Altona. 2.
Illinois North. — Chicago — Kankakee 1st, 6 50;
Chicago 2d, 100 ; Homewood, 5 ; Chicago 4th, 9 60.
Freeport — Galena South, 10. Rock River — Fulton,
1 50.
Illinois South.— Alton— \irden, 1 19; Carrollton,
1 17.
Indiana North. — Muncie — Wabash, 1 17. Logans-
port — Plymouth, 3.
Iowa South. — Iowa City — Montezuma, 4.
Kansas. — Highland — -Atchison, 4.
Long Island. — Long Island — Franklinville, 6 ;
Shelter Island, 15.
Minnesota. — Dakota — Yankton Agency, 8. St.
Paul — Rice’s Point, 1.
M issouri. — Ozark — Springfield Calvary, 3. Platte —
Craig, 2 50 ; Mound City, 3.
New Jersey. — Elizabeth — Roselle, 3 20. Jersey
City — Claremont, 7. Morris and Orange — East Orange,
2 33 ; Morristown 1st, 102 47 ; Hanover, 20. Neivdrk
— Bethany, 2. Newton — Belvidere 1st, 25 cents.
New York. — Hudson — Scotclitown, 1 31 ; Goodwill,
2 33. New York — Brick Chapel, 8. Westchester —
Port Chester, 5.
Philadelphia. — Chester — Doe Run, 1. Lacka-
wanna— Terry town, 4; Archibald, 1. Lehigh — Sum-
mit Hill, 1 17 ; Summit Hill sab-sch., 51 cts. ; James-
town sab-sch., 13 cts. Philadelphia — Calvary, 93 50;
Tabernacle, 5(J. Philadelphia Central — Trinity, 2.
Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh — Shady Side, 2U 61 ;
Central, 24; Bethany, by John Hickman, 25.
Toledo. — Bellefontaine — Bellefoutaiue, 1 54; Belle
Centre, 4; Huntsville, 3 60.
Western New York. — Rochester — Mt. Morris 1st.
11 50; Sparta 1st, 3; Lima, 1 05; Central, 45 82.
Wisconsin. — Lake Superior — Menominee, 4 ; Mari-
nette, 5. Milwaukee — Ottawa, 31 cts. M'scmm'ii
River — Madison 1st, 35 55.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Bequest in part of Dr. Williamson, late of St. Peter,
Minn., 44 68; Mrs. M. Phelps, Lewistown, III., 50;
Rev. S. V. McCorkle, Rodgersville, Teuu., 10 ; Mrs.
Isabel Leonard, Mt. Jackson, Pa., 5 ; Rev. C. S. Sher-
man, Nassau, N. Y., 3 ; Mrs. H. and daughter, Indi-
anapolis, Ind., 5; “C., Conn.,” 2; Cash, 4 88.
Total ; $1039 12
Presbyterian Committee for Freedmen, No. 33 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Rev. Elliott E. Swift. D.D., Chairman. Rev. James Allison, D.D.. Treasurer, P. O. Box 1474.
ECCLESIASTICAL RECORD
To July 10, 1880.
PASTORAL RELATIONS DISSOLVED.
Rev. S. S. Bergen and Fairchance Church,
Redstone Presby., June 7th, 1880.
Rev. W. S. Fulton and First Church, Oil
City, Pa., June 10th, 1880.
Rev. Clarence Eddy and Westminster Church,
Troy, N. Y.
CALLS ACCEPTED.
Rev. J. A. P. McGaw, D.D., to Central
Church, Rock Island, Ills.
Rev. W. D. Nicholas to First Church, Al-
bany, N. Y.
Rev. J. S. Sands to Arch St. Church, Phila-
delphia.
ORDINATIONS AND INSTALLATIONS.
liey. R. R. Moore was installed pastor of
First Church, Newark, Ohio, June 3d, 1880.
Mr. W. L. Swan was ordained and installed
pastor of Bethlehem and W aynesburg chui’ches,
Steubenville Presby., June 8th, 1880.
Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D., was installed
pastor of Fourth Church, Chicago, June 13th.
1S80.
Rev. T. R. Beeber was installed ptistor of
Second Church, Scranton, Pa., June 1st, 1880.
I Rev. Thos. .Doggett was installed pastor of
First Church, Bryan, Ohio, June 15th, 1880.
POST-OFFICE ADDRESSES CHANGED.
Rev. P. Roser from Galveston, Texas, to Os-
born, Kansas.
i Rev. N. F. Tuck from Zionsville to Kirklin,
Ind.
' Rev. W. Uber from Holton, Kansas, to Dal-
: las, Iowa.
Rev. R. II. Wilkinson from Hackensack, N.
J., to Acquebogue, L. I., N. Y.
The address of Rev. T. S. Hastings, D.D.,
until further notice, will be Oceanic, N. J.
Rev. E. Bos from Baldwin to Cedar Grove,
Wis.
Rev. W. C. Cort Yom Franklin Grove, 111.,
to Parowan, Iron Co., Utah Ter.
Rev. R. G. Lewis from Hamden Junction to
Chillicothe, Ohio.
!" Rev. Joel Kennedy from Joy, 111., to Av'oca,
Iowa.
Rev. E. W. Twichell from Burdett to No. 9
Johns St., Auburn, N. Y.
The address of Rev. Chas. Bonekemper is
box 505 Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Rev. J. S. Caruthers from Lyons, Kansas, to
Idaho Springs, Col.
Rev. John Creath from Georgetown, Texas,
to Neosho Falls, Kansas.
Rev. J. Cruikshanks from Kenosha, Wis., to
Spencer, Mass.
Rev. W. L. Boyd from Normal to Prairie
City, 111.
Rev. T. A. Shaver from Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
to Bridgewater, Dak. Ter.
Rev. J. F. Clarkson from Osborn to Homer,
Mo.
Rev. J. C. Ilanna from Arlington to Ply-
mouth, Kansas.
Rev. L. C. Littell from Yates City to Pontiac,
111.
Rev. Jas. Lafferty from Nokomis to Hardin,
111.
Rev. T. R. Beeber from Danville to Scran-
ton, Pa.
Rev. Samuel Miller, D.D., from Mount Holly
to Oceanic, Monmouth Co., N. J.
Rev. M. C. Buettel from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
to Freeport, 111.
Rev. J. A. P. McGaw, D.D., from Urbana,
Ohio, to Rock Island, 111.
Rev. T. M. Stevenson from Greenfield, 111.,
to New Plymouth, Ohio.
The address of Rev. W. A. McAtee is 3145
Prairie Ave., Chicago, 111.
Rev. W. H. Smith from Bath, 111., to Barron,
Wis.
Rev. J. R. Miller from Rock Island, 111., to
1334 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
The address of Rev. Walter Condict is Red
Wing, Minn.
Rev. F. A. Shearer, D.D., from West Liberty
to Colfax, Iowa.
Rev. C. Eddy from Troy to Waterford, N. Y.
The address of Rev. W. B. Barrach is Sher-
man, Wayne Co., Pa.
Rev. M. P. Ormsby from Eureka to Monti-
cello, 111.
DEATHS.
Rev. W. H. Megie at Brooklyn, N. Y., May
31st, 1880, in the 62d year of his age.
Rev. W. G. E. Agnew at Elizabeth, N. J.,
June 5th, 1880, in the 70th year of his age.
Rev. II. A. Boardman, D.D., at Philadelphia,
| June 15th, 1880, in the 73d year of his age.
Rev. Justus Doolittle at Clinton, N. Y., June
loth, 1880, in the 56th year of his age.
Rev. L. R. Booth at Spencer, Ind., June 5tli,
1880, in the 72d year of his age.
Rev. C. E. Furman, D.D., at Rochester, N.
Y., June 17th, 1880.
Rev. A. D. Chapman at Malcom, Iowa, June
10th, 1880, aged 70 years and 7 months.
Rev. J. II. Breck at Cleveland, Ohio, June
21st, 1880, aged 82 years.
Rev. J. C. Edwards at Morristown, N. J.,
June 28th, 1880, aged 73 years.
Rev. C. 0. Reynolds at New York, July 3d,
1880, aged 58 years.
Rev. C. II. Foote, D.D., at Ionia, Mich.,
June 27th, 1880.
Ministers are respectfully requested to furnish their changes of address directly to The
Monthly Record. It is sent to all ministers of the Presbyterian Church, and it is important
that their correct addresses should always be in the office.
-HtUNeeitN u\tivkr3ity,3!
In PEAR OXFORD,
This Institution provides a thorough Scientific, Classical, and Theological training ■
for colored young men.
In the name of the Presbyterian Church it is educating Christian Ministers and
Missionaries for the Negroes here and in Africa. It has been doing this for more than
twenty years past.
Eighty -three of its students have received ordination in the ministry or license to '•
preach. More than four hundred others are filling useful posts, as Educators and Chris-3
tian Leaders, chiefly in the Southern States. Of the thirty-four colored ministers
employed by our Committee of Freedmen, thirteen are Lincoln students, and fourteen ■
others are on the roll of our Presbyteries.
The University should have the means to send out annually a class of fifty such*
men. With its present financial ability it can scarcely send out ten.
If each educated minister among the five millions of Freedmen in our land shouldfe
have a charge of 2000 souls, there would be need of 2500 such men! There is good;
authority for saying that 200 could not be found. But besides our own Freedmen, ',
there are the wants and woes of Africa. How many such men are needed for the|'
150,000,000 of their Fatherland?
The necessary expenses of students are scarcely one-third of those in our white*
colleges, not exceeding $130 a year ; but this class of young men are comparatively®
poor, and must have aid. Of the six Professors, two are not provided for by them
invested funds of the college. To supplement these endowments, to aid the students, fj
and to meet current expenses, our work depends on voluntary contributions, chiefly !
from churches and individuals in the Presbyterian body.
Dr. Prime, of the JV. Y. Observer, says : “ There is as good ground to hope for grearai
' results in giving to Lincoln University as to any College or Theological Seminary in
the world. Lincoln is all ready. We can enlarge much easier than found new Institu-cl
tions. It would be a prudent investment. It would return profits to the giver four-?
fold/’
Ask for further particulars of, and send contributions to
Rev. EDWARD WEBB, Financial Secretary ,
Oxford, Chester Co., Pa.
BEQUESTS.
In the preparation of Wills, when it is desired to make Bequests to the General Assembly, or any of its
Boards or Permanent Committees, care should be taken to insert the Corporate Name, as known and recog* I
nized in the Courts of Law. Bequests for the
General Assembly should be made to “The Trustees of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States of America." _ *
Hoard of Home Missions, — to “The Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America, incorporated April 19th, 1872, by Act of the Legislature of the State of New York.’’ 1
Board of Foreign Missions, — to “ The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America.”
Board of CJiurch Erection, — to “ The Board of Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, incorporated May 5th, 1871, by the Legislature of
the State of New Y’ork.”
Board of Bublication, — to “The Trustees of the Presbyterian Board of Publication.”
Board of Education, — to “ The Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States
of America.” . JL I
Board of Belief, — to “The Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and ,
Orphans of Deceased Ministers.”
The Committee on Freedmen is not incorporated. Bequests for their Treasury may be made to “ The
Trustees of the General Assembly,” as above, “ For the use of the Presbyterian Committee of Missions for
Freedmen.”
AT. B. — If Real Estate be given by will, let it be carefully described.
Entered at the Post-office at Philadelphia, Pa., as second-class matter.
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